basket case

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basket case 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Slang.

  1. Offensive. a person who has had all four limbs amputated.
  2. a person who is helpless or incapable of functioning normally, especially due to overwhelming stress, anxiety, or the like.
  3. anything that is impaired or incapable of functioning: Right after the war the conquered nation was considered an economic basket case.

basket case 近义词

n. 名词 noun

nervous person

更多basket case例句

  1. Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.
  2. And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.
  3. Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
  4. Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.
  5. A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
  6. The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
  7. In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
  8. Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
  9. As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
  10. Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.