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basket case
noun as in nervous person
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Fifteen years later, Libya remains a basket case of militias, warlords and weak institutions.
The supporters didn't want him to leave at the end of his second season in July this year, but thought he was better off out of the basket case.
Venezuela is an economic basket case with a smaller population than Texas and virtually no functioning civil society.
After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters set to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious in a bed.
That aside, politics were kept to a minimum, as the group delivered a high-voltage blast of their greatest hits, from the bratty pop-punk of Basket Case to the more reflective Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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