Threads 104: Basketry Expressions

Recently I made a comment that you don't really want to put all of your eggs in one basket. I realized how basketry had been used in everyday life.

As a result, I thought it would be very interesting to look up various expressions that refer to basketry. For that reason, I thought I'd share the following with you.

Basketry 101 - taking an easy course at university

When referring to someone as a basketcase - someone who is not in their right senses and overwhelmed by panic or stress

All of your eggs in one basket - putting all of your resources in one place (see below!)

To give someone a basket - to reject someone, particularly in a romantic context. It is an old German custom of leaving a basket on a former lover's roof.

Hell in a hand basket - heading in a disastrous direction. Origins from the American Civil War.

Given a basket to carry water  - assigned an impossible or ridiculous task

Breadbasket - when an area is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there and therefore produce wealth for the country. 

Basket House - a bar or cafe or other venue where musicians perform and are paid only by the collection of money from the audience in a basket or similar receptacle.

Dinner Basket - refers to the stomach

Do you know any other basketry expressions you'd like to add to this list?