• By any standard, the area is an economic basket case.
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The economy was described as a basket case, with mounting debt and the highest public spending in Europe.
After that all-day meeting, I was practically a basket case.
•My weeks of worry were so intense that I was a real basket case afterwards.
After that all-day meeting, I was practically a basket case.
•My weeks of worry were so intense that I was a real basket case afterwards.
an economic basket case - слаборазвитая экономика
1. эвф. инвалид с ампутированными руками и ногами; тяжелораненый
2. сл. ненормальный, псих
3. сл. немощь; слабость; изношенность
an economic ~ - слаборазвитая экономика
|| He was a basket case. — Он был совершенно беспомощен.