Basket case
a basket case (noun) - something unable to function, in a seriously bad condition (a "basket case" was originally a person in a hospital who lost their arms and legs in an accident, a basket was needed to carry them in)the economy was a basket case
a Third World basket case
the country was an economic basket case
Detroit was a basket case in any recession
foreign investors acting en masse can turn an " emerging market " into a financial basket case with a few computer keystrokes
China was written off as a communist basket case
write off a basket case
the United States might do well to write off the " basket case " economies of Peru and Bolivia
a hopeless basket case
The Soviet economy is a hopeless basket case until the leadership of the Soviet Union recognizes that communism is dead
This stock is a basket case
the Chinese economic system is not a basket case
When I left him, I was a basket case
a perrenial basket case
This is not a perennial basket case. This country, if it could find peace, could be self-sufficient
American dollars are not going to save the Soviet Union. They're a basket case. Everywhere you go, there are cigarette lines, bread lines, gasoline
he had to find an answer to that basket case, that terrible economic situation where they couldn't provide enough food for their people
You're a regular basket case, you know that?
Panama is not a basket case like some other countries
My dad is in Vietnam; my mom is a basket case of fear
Peru has shifted from beacon of hope to basket case
the reason America is a financial basket case
an absolute basket case
Seattle was going to be a basket case in the future
he has become a virtual basket ca
I guarantee he will be a basket case someday
Dad's a basket case. It's impossible to get him to look at his life
she didn't want Edward to become an impossible basket case.
Should you enforce a specific nap time? Won't your child be a basket case without it?
Long-Term Capital Management became a basket case in early September, most of its $4.8 billion in capital wiped out
a basket case with the worst case of corruption in Europe
she was some kind of emotional basket case, always crying at the drop of a hat
