the variation "<span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>" may be connected <span class="searchmatch">to</span> its alliteration. <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span> (idiomatic, informal) <span class="searchmatch">To</span> go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> bad state of affairs...
<span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> handcart (not comparable) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>....
<span class="searchmatch">to</span> heck <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span> (not comparable) Euphemistic form of <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>....
probably say: “The world is going <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> basket,” although that sounds even worse, doesn’t it? <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>, <span class="searchmatch">to</span> heck <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>...
åt skogen go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span> (literally, “go straight <span class="searchmatch">to</span> the woods”) käpprätt <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) käpprätt <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Svensk ordbok...
gone <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> handcart <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> with until <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> freezes over war is <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> welcome <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> what the <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> when the <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> where...
See also: go-<span class="searchmatch">to</span>-<span class="searchmatch">hell</span> The third sense is first attested <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Shakespeare. The second sense is <span class="searchmatch">a</span> variation of older go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> the devil. The literal sense is attested...
language may not be going <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span> — what is <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready <span class="searchmatch">to</span> burninate <span class="searchmatch">a</span> noob. 2016, Christopher...
originally of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> shaggy-headed footballish fellow making <span class="searchmatch">a</span> slave of the old piano. 1962, Harry Allen Smith, <span class="searchmatch">To</span> <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">Handbasket</span>, page 127: He was <span class="searchmatch">a</span> big handsome...
participle den Bach runtergegangen, auxiliary sein) (colloquial) <span class="searchmatch">to</span> go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">handbasket</span>, <span class="searchmatch">to</span> go south 2024 December 26, Christian Jakob, quoting Ullrich...