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Wat (wie) is basket case - definitie


basket case         
(basket cases)
1.
If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state. (INFORMAL)
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
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2.
If you describe someone as a basket case, you think that they are insane. (INFORMAL)
You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this.
= nutcase
N-COUNT [disapproval]
basket case         
¦ noun informal a person or thing regarded as useless or unable to cope.
Origin
early 20th cent.: orig. US sl. denoting a soldier who had lost all four limbs.
Basket Case 3: The Progeny         
1992 FILM BY FRANK HENENLOTTER
Basket Case 3
Basket Case 3: The Progeny is a 1991 American comedy horror slasher film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It is the third and final installment of the Basket Case series.

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Basket Case
Basket Case may refer to:
Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor basket case
1. "It is not the basket case that the council suggests.
2. He said: "The business was becoming a basket case.
3. The country has been described as an economic basket case.
4. "The Massachusetts economy was a basket case when Mitt Romney took office," Fehrnstrom said.
5. Russia will again become the economic basket case it was in the 1''0s.