basket case

That manager has been a basket case here since his wife left him.

Despite the best intentions of many around the world, including the former President himself, Haiti is still a basket case.

The same applies to unruly Albania, which after years of progress is in danger of turning once more into a basket-case.

They made me wait so long for the interview that I was a basket case by the time I finally got called in.

North Korea's economy, meanwhile, turned into a basket case following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main benefactor.

In the Western imagination, China is as much an environmental basket case as it is an economic miracle.

Somalia is an ecological basket case, with overpopulation, overgrazing and desertification destroying its pastoral economy.

Just think, if there is no proper job, a "social man" , would not become a social "basket case" ?

In five years under Marchionne, the company has gone from being a basket case to the M& A king of the industry.

whether Greece is a basket-case all of its own, or investors lose confidence in other heavily indebted governments.

The country was an economic basket case due to civil war.

I'm afraid my uncle 's stressful job has turned him into a basket case .

"Basket case" Allison is a pathological liar with zero social skills whose oversize parka is a handy security blanket.

That America became the superpower and Argentina the basket-case was not preordained.

Thailand: the next Asian basket case?

I was a basket case, the teacher is not news to me is just like drinking sweet as honey.

Especially in the late 1990s, when the party was, in Lord Ashcroft's account, "a financial basket case" , his support was vital.

Fuck yeah, I'm a basket case and I mastered this rap shit.

On just about every count, the task-force sees Chrysler as a basket-case.

Instead I say to myself: damn you, Henry Kissinger, for calling my country a basket case.

They can be volatile; Ireland has gone from being a "Celtic tiger" to a financial basket case.

I think I'm cracking up, am I just paranoid? I'm just stoned. - Green Day, Basket Case.

America began life as a fiscal basket-case.

This is no Soviet-style economic basket case.

It's a 40 percent nation, mediocre in the world rankings, but not a basket case.

I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams. She says it's a lack of sex that's bringing me down. - Green Day, Basket Case.

A terrible recession will be followed by a lacklustre recovery, but Britain is no basket-case

The call you seek, the basket case

Basket Case by Green Day