Around the same time, there was a debate about whether there were really basket suitcases. This example appeared in the Boston Globe in 1919: “Maj. Gen. [Merritte] Ireland, surgeon-general of the army, has stated today that there is no basis for widespread and sustained reports of basket cases in military hospitals.” However, as a rule, even in extreme varieties, the specimen can be identified by careful examination. In a statement rejecting a motion to dismiss, Delaware Vice Chancellor Parsons addressed the relationship between a pay basket and the interpretation of the term “significant” in sales contracts, suggesting that it is at least plausible that the dollar amount of the basket could define the term “significant” for the purposes of the agreement generally. (1) (An indemnity basket is used in sales contracts to establish a financial threshold for calculating damages that must be exceeded before a party can claim compensation.) Alarmingly insinuating that the term is still used literally in North America, Collins defines the “basket case” as follows: A grand juror in the Ferguson case goes on to explain exactly what happened in the courtroom. The use of “basket suitcase” resurfaced during World War II with a very similar meaning. Meanwhile, however, we also see some extensions of the term. Sometimes in large plants, cones are known to appear at the end of the branches of the marsh horsetail. The affair was an attack and a battery that broke away between two men named Brown and Henderson. Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for the basket suitcase A person or thing that is too weak to function.
For example, the stress of moving twice a year left him with a basket suitcase, or The republics of the former Soviet Union are economic basket cases. Originating in the First World War for a soldier who had lost all four limbs in combat and therefore had to be carried in a litter box (“basket”), this term was later transferred to an emotionally or psychologically unstable person and later to anything that did not work. [Slang; second half of the 1900s] Starting in the 1950s, a “basket suitcase” could be a vehicle that was missing parts or was dilapidated. Around the same time, we begin to see the usage that most people probably experience today, i.e. a person who is unable to handle it for emotional reasons. Practitioners often consider the relationship between these two concepts, and the notice confirms that the parties must be clear in formulating the intent of the basket provision or risk a judicial interpretation that could conflict with the intention of the parties. In litigation, the parties to a share purchase agreement challenge an indemnification obligation related to an alleged breach of a material contract by the seller. Since the agreement did not define the term “materiality”, the seller argued that this should be interpreted in accordance with the relatively high standard of Delaware jurisprudence, while the buyer argued that the agreement`s $100,000 basket of claims was intended to define the term “materiality” in the agreement, even though the basket provision did not mention materiality. In considering the positions put forward by the parties, the Court noted that the buyer`s position was conceivable and noted that such an interpretation would recognize that the parties intended to relate the basket to the interpretation of “materiality”. The Sun thinks Greece, Spain and Zimbabwe are basket suitcases, and Prince William could have been, but not because of Kate. The Times agrees that the economies of Greece and Argentina are isolated cases; Africa used to be one, but now it`s a “breadbasket”. (Strangely, Manchester City`s Premier League campaign was also a basket case for the Times.) In this case, I suspect that there was a strong childlike quality, love, to produce an effect.
“I think the Guardian should avoid the term `basket case,`” says one reader. “It`s a shocking, poignant and entertaining image. (It`s also hyperbolic and worn, but that`s another matter.) The phrase was used in a front-page headline [`Boom time for Mozambique, once the basket case of Africa`]. Its power stems from the idea that a double amputee is useless and that its existence is unsustainable. Even if it were true (which it isn`t), the metaphor is always best avoided. The Guardian would not use spastic or quadriplegic as a pejorative agent. Why use basket suitcases? The London Evening Standard sees the euro, the EU as a whole, various banks and municipalities without directly elected mayors as isolated cases. In the midst of such ventures, the Guardian seems to be a model of restraint, with only two basket suitcases in a month: the British economy, as managed by George Osborne, and a rugby union club. Although in this case it is not clarified whether baskets and similar provisions should define the term “material” even without explicit reference to materiality, it serves as a useful reminder of the possible interpretation of these provisions in sales contracts. Some features of his story suggest why this might be the case. The online etymological dictionary confirms that “Basket Case,” which it dates from the United States in 1919, originally referred to quadriplegics who suffered catastrophic injuries during World War I, adding omily that it was “probably literal — that is, stuck in a basket.” It dates the figurative meaning of “person who cannot cope emotionally” to 1967.
These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “shopping cart case”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. The first citation of “basket case” in the Oxford English Dictionary dates back to 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War. This stemmed from rumours that soldiers had all lost their limbs and had to be carried in a basket. In the mid-1940s, the “basket suitcase” was used to refer to an inefficient or helpless person. From there, it is a country or organization that is experiencing serious economic difficulties. You can always find current instances of this usage. 3 has someone or something that is unable to function normally b (as a modifier): a basket economy The latter definition is by far the most commonly used by British newspapers. Of the more than 30 mentions last month, most were economic in nature. The more Eurosceptic the paper, the more often it describes the EU economy or any aspect of it as an “isolated case”. For the postal service, the euro, the economies of southern Europe and the EU in general (as well as Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland) are all common cases.
Thus, man was completely left to the devil, even his life was not reserved, as in the case of Job. And at least in the case of fluoride, this doubt can indeed be justified. Is Basket Case offensive? Originally, at least – which is perhaps why today it is mainly applied to countries and currencies and not to people. In any context, as our reader has mentioned, the expression is indeed “worn”. Applied lazily to an economy, it has lost any metaphorical power or rhetorical freshness it once had.