VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Basket Case

Meaning:

So upset or stunned that one is unable to function; in a hopeless condition

Examples:

  • If there wasn't so much to do, I'd be a basket case.
  • Well, he's the cutest basket case I've ever seen.
  • Now he's a complete basket case.
  • I'm gonna be a basket case every time.
  • I'm the basket case.
  • She's been a basket case.
  • He's a real basket case.
  • She was a nurse and I was a basket case, so, you know, not a bad match.
  • If I'd gotten into that car, I'd be a basket case. I never would have had the juice to go near her.
  • I know about his band of freaks, the race car driver, the basket case, the test pilot, the Hollywood actress...