A popular myth says that the phrase originated due to the use of the guillotine during French Revolution—but here’s the real ...

Sky News host Caleb Bond claims America is going to “hell in a handbasket” if US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets into the White House. “She says some pretty wacky stuff ...

When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things?