单词	basket case
释义	basket case noun plural basket cases 1 a informal : a person who is functionally incapacitated from extreme nervousness, emotional distress, mental or physical overwork, etc. I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case. At 6 o'clock nearly every morning, Harvey Mackay hits the floor running. In a few minutes he's off on his seven-miler. "With all the traveling I do, if I didn't run I'd be a basket case," says the man whose dizzy day of activities usually doesn't wind up until one the next morning. Jim Braham Needless to say, I was a basket case for the rest of the afternoon and evening, convinced that at any moment the man would reappear at my window. Stephanie Booth b informal : something (such as a business or government) that is dysfunctional, run-down, or close to failure But the utility industry is a financial basket case. Once the bluest of blue chips, utility stocks and bonds have lost their luster. Chemical and Engineering News Despite its perceived liabilities, Poland has made astounding progress in just two years. It was an economic basket case until the end of 1989, with hyperinflation, bare shelves and food lines. Blaine Harden Any antique airplane that can be located is sold (even basket cases) at high premium to enthusiastic antiquers who fly them with pride. Francis Rourke 2 dated, informal + offensive : a person who has all four limbs amputated Example Sentences I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case. a business that was once very successful but is now a financial basket case Recent Examples on the Web Communist China was a basket case under one-man rule. Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 Sri Lanka is an international basket case whose foreign reserves — which once stood at over $6 billion under the Rajapaksas — have dwindled to almost nothing. New York Times, 29 May 2022 Naím was once, in a happier day, the finance minister of Venezuela, and Hugo Chávez, who took a troubled but essentially prosperous country with a long democratic tradition and turned it into an international basket case, comes in for close study. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Credit Suisse has become a European banking basket case. Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022 The village was literally a basket case, bereft of water, food and all hope. Steve West, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022 Venezuela, another socialist basket case, slips to the second-most-miserable country in the world after six years in the pole position. Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 Today, a mere million dollars barely buys a Miura basket case. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2022 After all, remember, even Moses started out as a basket case, as author J.J. Jasper reminds us. Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1919, in the meaning defined at sense 2 basket case noun as in nervous breakdown Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance nervous breakdown anxiety breakdown alarm disquiet perturbation apprehension alarum agitation tailspin discomposure nervousness meltdown frazzle crack-up excitability freak-out disturbance Antonyms & Near Antonyms tranquility coolness composure serenity tranquillity calmness tranquilness imperturbability placidity aplomb sereneness self-possession See More
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