Hell in a handbasket, folks

a basket of deplorables?

OP setting a trend for minimalist thesis of the year.

There better be some high end hand cream in that hand basket.

Told you.

Helena Handbasket would make a great drag name, or apparently a name for a video game character.

Helena Handbasket was a name for one of DL's most infamous trolls, an alias for the equally infamous Daniel Bexton.

Do you still doubt me?

In 1704 Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world might end in 2060.

Just sayin'

I want little flowers on my hand basket.

This is the only Helena Handbasket that matters.

Hell in a Handbasket

When you say things are going to ‘Hell In A Handbasket’ you mean that a situation is rapidly deteriorating or that you are set firmly on a course for disaster.

Example of use: “How’s it going, Op?” Answer: “Hell in a handbasket, folks.”

Interesting fact about Hell in a Handbasket

The origin of the phrase ‘hell in a handbasket’ can be found in the practice of capturing the heads of guillotine victims in a basket, with the presumption being that these criminals would be going straight to hell for their crimes. Although the phrase is thought to have originated sometime during the 18th century, the first printed example is found in Winslow Ayer’s book on the American Civil War, The Great North-Western Conspiracy. A reprint was published in 1867’s House Documents in the U.S. Congress...

Hell in a Handbag!

Fabulously camp Chicago theater group - which is where I saw "Christmas Dearest" - a fabulous merging of Mommie Dearest and A Christmas Carol.

Do you doubt me NOW?

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R12 beat me to it. Don't forget their brilliant musical version of The Poseidon Adventure -Poseidon, An Upside Down Musical!

just the tip!