go to hell in a handbasket/handcart

American, informal

if a person or system is going to hell in a handbasket, they are in an extremely bad state and becoming worse.

He believes the welfare system in this country is going to hell in a handcart.

• at sea
• at service
• at someone's beck and call
• at someone's elbow
• at someone's heels
• at someone's knee
• at someone's service
• at stake
• attend to
• attend to someone
• attend to something
• at the back of beyond
• at the back of mind
• at the back of your mind
• at the best of times
• at the bottom of the heap
• at the bottom of the ladder
• at the bottom of the pile
• at the chalkface
• at the coalface
• at the crack of dawn
• at the cutting edge
• at the double
• at the drop of a hat
• at the eleventh hour