go to hell in a bucket

go to hell in a bucket

To be in an extremely and increasingly bad or ruinous condition; to be on the inevitable path to utter failure or ruin. With the way he's running things, the company is going to hell in a bucket! After our funding was cut, our project went to hell in a bucket.
See also: bucket, go, hell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go to hell in a bucket

 and go to hell in a handbasket
Fig. to get rapidly worse and worse. The school system in this district is going to hell in a bucket, and no mistake. His health is going to hell in a handbasket ever since he started drinking again.
See also: bucket, go, hell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • go to hell in a handbasket
  • go to hell in a handbasket, to
  • be going to hell
  • handbasket
  • handcart
  • go to hell in a handcart
  • go to the devil
  • Go to the devil!
  • lead balloon, go over like a
  • go down like a lead balloon