Handbasket and Guillotine?

«Why’d everything have to go to hell in a handbasket?»

To be ‚going to hell in a handbasket‘ is to be rapidly deteriorating – on course for disaster.
One theory on the origin of the phrase is that derives from the use of handbaskets in the guillotining method of capital punishment.

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How True!

«No matter how thin the pancake, there are always two sides!»

Variations:
«No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.»
«There are two sides to every story.»


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