Certain woven container

Usage examples of handbasket.

Surely they would send the handbasket back when they realized that it was empty.

Hell-bent handbasket swung into the anteroom, and two children scrambled out.

Was she bent on blowing his case to hell in a handbasket singlehandedly?

The lane was choked with people waiting to go in the gate, children younger than Gird with handbaskets, those his own age with armbaskets, older ones with ruckbaskets like his.

They would not, they said, give anythingnot one stones weight of grain or handbasket of dried fruit.

She made out the stocky figure of Lytol, a handbasket of glows held high above his head.

He shook his head, assured now by the Messiah himself that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

There were things worse than death, watching a loved one fall and slip away was one of them, and she cried for every mother, every father, every child, every brother, every sister, every lover, every grandmom, every spouse, every anybody who had to sit and weep and watch and witness their prayers go to hell in a handbasket.

Last year he’d carried a handbasket in each hand: two handbaskets make an armbasket, last year’s fee.

The lane was choked with people waiting to go in the gate, children younger than Gird with handbaskets, those his own age with armbaskets, older ones with ruckbaskets like his.

If they don't learn it, they can't teach it, and we'll all go to hell in a handbasket.

Things are going to hell in a handbasket in there, no pun intended.

He supposed that the admiral would check the kid out on them, too, and decided that the navy had gone to hell in a handbasket if it would certify the spacemad on a self-destruction course.

My reputation went to hell in a handbasket, but she never got so much as a splash of mud on the hem of her skirts.

Transported and enslaved uffts would have been involved in the collapse of human civilization, and the galaxy at large would have gone to hell in a handbasket.