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go to hell in a handbasket

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go to hell in a handbasket/handcart  (American informal)
if a person or system is going to hell in a handbasket, they are in an extremely bad state and becoming worse He believes the welfare system in this country is going to hell in a handcart.
See also: hell


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If Ralph Nader wins, we'll all go to Hell in a handbasket, though every handbasket will be equipped with a seat belt.
To fight the anti-life agenda requires a deep-seated conviction not only that this "culture of death" actually exists but that it is a powerful and immediate threat to both spiritual and societal life; and that, unless it is stopped, the country, as the expression has it, will go to hell in a handbasket.
 
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