Sentences with phrase «basket case»

I was an emotional basket case when I walked into that meeting and had more questions than I care to remember.

I tried to prepare myself for being a total basket case during labor, but it turns out I was able to stay relatively centered.

An environmental basket case and a lousy oil merchant?

I turn into a straight - up crazy person when I am on all these hormones and medications and I become a completely irrational basket case — hostile and hard to deal with.

Sometimes the person you're dating / married to can become a violent basket case.

On paper the company looks like a productivity basket case.

You can't think when you are an emotional basket case.

If a puppy is going to be a medical basket case, then I believe it justified to put a puppy down, too.

The more I have read JoNova's blog posts about the what is happening in Australia the more I am beginning to believe that the government is trying to make the country into an economic basket case in order to gain as much control over the population as it can.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has taken a harder line, warning there was a risk Australia could become an economic basket case like Greece or Spain if the May budget didn't curb «runaway spending» on the aged pension, family tax benefits and childcare.

Lily Taylor stars as Eleanor, a borderline basket case who spent most of her life apart from the outside world, answering the demands of her sick mother day and night.

It may be loaded down with already mature countries such as Taiwan or South Korea... or with basket cases like Greece.

Iceland scores high on international assessments, but in the global crisis of 2008 — 2009 it became an economic basket case with a national debt equal to 850 percent of its gross domestic product.

Cap - weighted bond index funds screen for credit risk, so no investor is in danger of being unwittingly saddled with a bunch of fiscal basket cases.

There is the tantalum revival, $ 63.5 million in fresh capital to wash away the sins of the past, a new CEO and the celebration of SOG's 21st birthday as a listed company in May — a perfect time to complete the transition of SOG from basket case to boom stock — yet again.

I will say only that Hawk has now had as many owners as this athlete has had NBA teams; that the athlete finally played his way down to the CBA; and that when I spoke earlier of boys who have made their dogs into basket cases, I spoke from personal knowledge.

And, counterintuitively, to the extent that the euro is devalued because of the fiscal basket cases on the southern fringe of Europe and in Ireland, it facilitates German exports.

His blog made its debut only about 18 months ago following a conversion to index investing that occurred while covering a boot camp for financial basket cases that was set up by MoneySense.

The reason tax mix matters is because it explains the Nordic countries, who have much larger public sectors than does Canada, so much so that according to the usual Fraser Institute logic that lower taxes overall would lead to faster economic growth, they ought to be complete basket cases.

Synapse Films is proud to present BASKET CASE 2 in a beautiful high - definition transfer from the original 35 mm camera negative.

New Gluskin Sheff report says Uncle Sam needs to study Canada's path from budget basket case to OEDC.

I merely took a scattergun approach by establishing small stakes in many low - priced stocks on the basis that few star performers would outweigh the many basket cases.

But if that is how your god feels, and is forgiving and patient, he has some serious mental issues... you worship a bi-polar basket case.

Who, by the way, probably thinks I'm an overbearing basket case (and for the record: I totally am) but I'd like to think I get a free pass considering most of our belongings are covered in plastic drop cloths and everything we think we can't live without is crammed into our 192 square foot bedroom.

Joe Hockey's first big day out as Treasurer was like a new chief executive who inherited a corporate basket case and then announced huge write - downs and impairments.

I mean bone weary, decisions blurred, logic failing, body achy, emotional basket cases tired.

But the alternative of giving Scotland the ammunition to leave the UK, turning London from the booming city of Europe to a neurotic basket case and fuelling the already deep sense of fuming anxiety of those that supported Remain is much worse.

Obama would rightly lose all environmental credibility if he were to approve a scheme to double his country's imports of this fossil - fuel basket case.

I'm a fashion basket case.

i'd be a nervous basket case.

Belial, everyone's favorite beast - in - a-basket, is back in this sensational third film in the wildly macabre BASKET CASE horror series.

Another is Buddy Cole (Giovanni Ribisi), who is haunted by nightmares and is a seething basket case filled with resentment against his father.

But Greenberg's inconclusive last scene hints at the possibility that even the bitterest basket case stands a chance of finding someone who loves him.

There is Don (Scoot McNairy), a troubled basket case who worships Frank as a spiritual guide, smitten with his embrace of the unorthodox.

Then again, no one in «Neighbors» claims these two sleep - deprived basket cases know what they're doing.

Stressed out and dyslexic herself, she realizes that Adams Elementary — not her kid — is an academic basket case.

The hole in the argument, (the Treasury's not mikes) is that there will be many smaller schools, the odd basket case and most special schools, who will be unattractive to any buisness orientated MAT.

At first, I scour salvage - auction listings for a low - dollar basket case.

His father waited four years before finding an N600 of his own, a ’71 basket case, and put the car together in their driveway.

I was such a sartorial basket case that she needed her own assistant to keep me pressed, dressed, and ready for my close - up.

I shouldn't be surprised (and I'm sure dealing with the UK branch of an Irish state - owned basket case bank is no fun), but why on earth didn't the company:

Jon Chase of the Hoonigan Garage found this well - loved basket case Bel Air and immediately went about making it a roller.

With its population growing at 3 percent per year and with water tables falling everywhere, Yemen is fast becoming a hydrological basket case.

Internal struggles and spats with the company's founders has led to the Nest brand being featured more regularly as a potential business page basket case than for its product innovation.

To the villagers, Bess is a suitable case for treatment, an emotional basket case in a community that prides itself on restraint.

Commenting on the global economy, Gundlach noted that the discussion used to be about basket cases like Argentina and other developing countries.