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basket case
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basket case
Fig. a person who is a nervous wreck. (Formerly referred to a person who is physically disabled in all four limbs because of paralysis or amputation.) After that all-day meeting, I was practically a basket case. My weeks of worry were so intense that I was a real basket case afterwards.
See also: basket, case


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Most of the financial basket cases in the supplier industry are Tier Ones, and it is not clear that some of them will be able to successfully cope with this new industry structure.
In the TV categories, ``Desperate Housewives'' scored nominations for best comedy series, as well as for its quartet of suburban basket cases - Huffman, Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria.
They're all basket cases to some degree or another, although it's not entirely their fault.
 
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