Synonyms for basket case
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of basket case
Origin :- 1919, American English, originally a reference to rumors of quadriplegics as a result of catastrophic wounds suffered in World War I (the military vehemently denied there were any such in its hospitals), from basket (n.) + case (n.2). Probably literal, i.e., stuck in a basket, but basket had colloquial connotations of poverty (begging) and helplessness long before this. Figurative sense of "person emotionally unable to cope" is from 1921.
- noun nervous person
- Poor Otto ended up a basket case, just in time to have the damned stuff start all over again at the stumps of his arms and legs.
- Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
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