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go to hell in a handbasket/handcart
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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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Her well-meaning family calls a priest, and the rest of the story goes to hell in a handbasket.
Sure, those who think that they're going to be able to succeed by making massive numbers of undifferentiated whatevers are going to find themselves in the aforementioned handbasket.
I mean, if a hot dog on a Friday could put you in a handbasket to hell, my frequently committed mortal sins were certainly good for a one-way ticket on the Stygian Ferry.
 
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