Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?
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Handbasket
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We're going to Hell in a handbasket.
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After a little while she brought them in a handbasket, cooked and ready served for him.
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I have always wondered how the world, which is very large, can fit into something as small as a handbasket. To deepen my confusion, I’m not even sure I know what a handbasket is. Aren’t all baskets in fact handbaskets, and if they are, isn’t the prefix hand wholly unnecessary? We should probably say: “The world is going to hell in a basket,” although that sounds even worse, doesn’t it?
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