1, The education system in this country has gone to hell in a handbasket.

2, The education system in this state has gone to hell in a handbasket.

3, Or they make enormous generalizations about American culture, to suggest that we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

4, It was enough to make me say stuff like "this country is going to hell in a handbasket, " which I actually said.

5, The company can only go to hell in a handbasket with this damned dead-cat bounce.

6, In other words, Buckle was the avatar of the notion in the late nineteenth century that everything was going to hell in a handbasket.