basket case

Example Sentences

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They are still a basket case of a club, and you could say the same about West Ham.

From BBC

We’ll talk about football eventually but some more financial basket case news first, from Derby, whose administrators say they are still working with potential buyers, a day after one group declared their interest was at an end.

From The Guardian

By the time Bailey-Bond turned to filmmaking, after studying performing arts, she had already internalized many of the classics, like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “The Evil Dead” and “Basket Case,” the latter of which was also a feature directing debut.

From New York Times

“But the fundamental view about India is that it is not a basket case, it is a strong economy.”

From Reuters

Arauz’s backers have accused Lasso’s camp of smearing him as a radical socialist who would turn Ecuador into a Venezuelan-style economic basket case and abandon the U.S. dollar as the nation’s currency.

From Los Angeles Times