I’m so glad I found this site!
I searched for Hell in a Handbasket and found it used in a discussion of something quite different, which passed the odd few minutes of serendipity, but does anyone know where the expression originated.
My regular sources don’t help.
It’s North American, I think – a hidden quote from a now unknown classic?
I look forward to dipping in regularly for serious talk about fripperies and flimflam
The sources I’ve seen say the only good rationale is that things can be carried easily and swiftly in a handbasket - and that it may have originally had a divine connotation. Hell in a handbasket therefore refers to a swift and easy journey there.
You guys don’t speak HTML? Sheesh!
I’ve always said “To Hell in a shopping cart”, never a handbasket. Maybe shopping carts are faster.
link fixed
You know there is a preview button. Geez, the whole internet is going to hell in some fast manner, the specifics of which I do not know.
No comprende senor ;), some of us are fluent in vB code however.
also hell in a haycart and hell in a bucket
personally, I’d like to see the phrase “hell in a hatchback” gain wide currency.
You want to see hell in a hatchback, drive a 96’ Ford Escort sport model for a month…