handbasket

You think the country has gone to “hell in a handbasket” under the current administration and party leadership.

Yes, it can be argued the country has gone to “hell in a handbasket.”

This is not a lament that things have gone to hell in a handbasket since some mythical golden era.

He told me the country was going to Rome in a handbasket, or something like that.

"Rome was always going to Hell in a handbasket, and finally it—" He paused.

That was all very well and good, but just what was the handbasket made of?

The world, he told himself, was going to hell in a handbasket.