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To hell in a handbasket

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In popular culture
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"Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket",^[1] "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an American allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.

I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic^[2] alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.{{'"}}^[3]

In popular culture

Hieronymous Bosch painting "The Haywain" (c. 1515) (in the Prado, Madrid) illustrates a large cart of hay heading to Hell. The cart is drawn by 'infernal beings that drag everyone to Hell'.

The phrase also appeared in the title of several published works and other media:

"To Hell in a Handbasket" is the name of humorist H. Allen Smith's 1962 autobiography.
Hell in a Handbasket was the title of a 1988 Star Trek comic book.
Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2006 book ({{ISBN|1585424587}}) by American cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who authors the cartoon strip This Modern World.
"Hell in a handbasket" was the name of an undescribed con requiring a trained cat referenced in the 2004 film, Ocean's Twelve.
Hell in a Handbasket is a song from Voltaire's Ooky Spooky album.
Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2011 Meat Loaf album
A number of fictional characters have used a name that puns on the phrase, including:
- Helena Handbasket is the name of a character in the TV show Friends. It is the stage name for Chandler's crossdressing dad.
- Helena Handbasket is also a fictional nymph in the 2011 video game Rayman Origins.
- Helena Handbasket is also the pseudonym of the author of Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Decline and Fall of the United States.
The 2015 video game Fallout 4 includes a "Vault Tec Representative" (Vault Tec is a fictional company in the Fallout franchise) and refers to the phrase "Heck in a handbasket".

References

1. ^Hendrickson, Robert (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=yXY0yQnvmmUC&pg=PA77&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms]. Infobase Publishing. p. 77. {{ISBN|1438129920}}.
2. ^Ayer, I. Windslow, The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details. Chicago: Rounds and James, 1865. p.47 [https://archive.org/details/greatnorthwester01ayer retrieved October 30, 2010]
3. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hell-in-a-handbasket.html|title= The meaning and origin of the expression: Going to hell in a handbasket |accessdate= October 30, 2010 |last= Martin |first= Gary |publisher= The Phrase Finder|quote= The first example of 'hell in a hand basket' that I have found in print comes in I. Winslow Ayer's account of events of the American Civil War The Great North-Western Conspiracy, 1865. A very similar but slightly fuller report of Morris's comments was printed in the House Documents of the U.S. Congress, in 1867}}

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