Hell in a Handbasket

Deteriorating and headed for complete disaster.



It isn't at all obvious why 'handbasket' was chosen as the preferred vehicle to convey people to hell. One theory on the origin of the phrase is that derives from the use of handbaskets in the guillotining method of capital punishment. If Hollywood films are to be believed, the decapitated heads were caught in baskets - the casualty presumably going straight to hell.



Ex: My worlds gone to hell in a hand basket since she left me.



Spanish: a ir al infierno en un santiamén



German: den Bach runtergehen