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go to hell in a bucket

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go to hell in a bucket

 and go to hell in a handbasket

Fig. to get rapidly worse and worse. The school system in this district is going to hell in a bucket, and no mistake. His health is going to hell in a handbasket ever since he started drinking again.

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