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...