Going to hell in a handbasket is defined as a situation, a place, or a person, or an object headed for disaster inescapably and/or precipitately. When used to describe an object or a house, it means that the object or house is becoming derelict, dangerous to live in, a hazard, and incredibly damaged, or already is.
Synonyms "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket", "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket".
Synonyms "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket", "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket".
Example 1
Person 1: That hoarder house went to hell in a handbasket after that tree branch collapsed the roof.
Person 2: The owner still hasn't repaired the roof.
Example 2
To individuals observing the United States of America from outside of the United States of America during the last 5 years, it looks like the United States of America is going to hell in a handbasket.
Person 1: That hoarder house went to hell in a handbasket after that tree branch collapsed the roof.
Person 2: The owner still hasn't repaired the roof.
Example 2
To individuals observing the United States of America from outside of the United States of America during the last 5 years, it looks like the United States of America is going to hell in a handbasket.
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A DVD trilogy of (mostly) fucked up found footage films, there are 3 films in the trilogy (no shit) Ensuring Your Place In Hell, Ensuring Your Place In Hell 2, Ensuring Your Place In Hell 3.
Eypih 1 contains: Grave Robbing for Morons, Cooking with Huck Botko, Mortuary of the Dead, Exploding Varmints
Eypih 2 contains: Exorcism in Turkey, Wonderland 1981 Crime Scene, Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, High Impact: Hand Safety Video
Eypih 3 contains: Plant Earth About to be Recycled (Heaven’s Gate Initiation), The Enemy Japan, Rayshard Brooks Killing, Begotten
Eypih 1 contains: Grave Robbing for Morons, Cooking with Huck Botko, Mortuary of the Dead, Exploding Varmints
Eypih 2 contains: Exorcism in Turkey, Wonderland 1981 Crime Scene, Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, High Impact: Hand Safety Video
Eypih 3 contains: Plant Earth About to be Recycled (Heaven’s Gate Initiation), The Enemy Japan, Rayshard Brooks Killing, Begotten
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Get the Ensuring Your Place In Hell mug.n. An obsolete term for the West Side of Manhattan when it was a violent slum. The suburban transplants that have moved into the neighborhood are making every effort to resurrect the name "Hell's Kitchen" as they believe it will afford them instant street credibility. Psuedo-Street Smarts that they hope will disguise their middle-class suburban upbringing. The neighborhood has since "gentrified" great since the late 1980s and is now comprised of transplants and the trendy cafes/shops that come with them.
Notice how dumb it sounds when you have some obvious suburbanite refer to where they live as "Hell's Kitchen?!"
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