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to hell in a handcart

to hell in a handcart is the alternative form of to hell in a handbasket.

Meaning of to hell in a handbasket

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To go to a bad state of affairs quickly.
    • I watched as the guy in charge did nothing and the whole place went to hell in a handbasket.

Questions about to hell in a handcart

What is to hell in a handcart the alternative form of?
To hell in a handcart is the alternative form of to hell in a handbasket.

Words near to hell in a handcart in the dictionary

  1. to heel
  2. to hell
  3. to hell and back
  4. to hell and gone
  5. to hell in a handbasket
  6. to hell in a handcart
  7. to hell with
  8. to high heaven
  9. To Kwa Wan
  10. to let
  11. to little avail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to hell in a handcart (page history and authors); to hell in a handbasket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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