basket case
Noun
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Noun
basket case (plural basket cases)
- (slang, potentially offensive) One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic, stress or exhaustion.
- Synonyms: emotional cripple
- She was a complete basket case the morning of her wedding.
- An institution or country in a bad condition or difficult situation (economically, financially or otherwise).
- This country is a financial basket case, a country so broke that it should be a perfect warning to lenders.
- Some countries are breadbaskets, others basket cases.
- 2009, Selig S. Harrison, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, Princeton University Press (ISBN 9781400824915), page 48:
- The stereotypical image of North Korea as a hopeless economic basket case ignores the fact that there are extensive natural resources there.
- French: loque, épave
- German: Nervenbündel
- German: hoffnungsloser Fall
- Spanish: caso perdido
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