What is another word for handbasket?

Pronunciation: [hˈandbaskɪt] (IPA)

Handbasket is a colloquial term used to describe a small woven basket that can be carried by hand. The term is often used in the expression 'Going to hell in a handbasket', which means to experience a rapid decline or fall from grace. However, there are several synonyms for the term handbasket that can be used in its place. These include purse, bag, tote, basket, hamper, crate, box, and handheld container. Each of these words can be used to describe a small container or receptacle that can be carried by hand. While handbasket remains a popular phrase, using these synonyms can add variety and interest to written or spoken language.

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What are the hypernyms for Handbasket?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Handbasket

  • The man had declared, with some justification, that the world was going to hell in a handbasket, and then gone on to claim that the only solution lay in returning to the Good Old Moral Values of the glorious past. Unable to stand any more, Malcolm had demanded why, if those values were so marvellous, the people who paid lip-service to them had involved mankind in two world wars with all their accoutrements from poison gas to atom-bombs.
    John Brunner

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