basket case betydelse and definition

Betydelse av basket case på svenska

• 0 someone who is extremely nervous or anxious and is therefore unable to organize their life:

  • By the end of the course I was a complete basket case.

• 1 a country or company that is very unsuccessful financially:

  • 20 years ago the country was an economic basket case.

• 2 someone who is made very anxious by the demands and pressures of something, esp. work:

  • I was a basket case by the end of the day.

• 3 used especially in newspapers to describe a country, company, or organization that has very serious financial problems:

  • The economy was described as a basket case, with mounting debt and the highest public spending in Europe.