basket-case

If not for the writing and singing of songs, she might very well be a basket case.

So is Phoenix finally ready to drop the basket-case act and play nice in Hollywood?

To hear him tell it, Phoenix is at peace with coming off like a wild, unhinged basket case for the past few years.

After years of the party acting like a political basket case prone to hysterical psychodrama, Sunday's vote was itself a triumph.

Greece remains a fiscal basket case, as well as a warning sign.

Poor Otto ended up a basket case, just in time to have the damned stuff start all over again at the stumps of his arms and legs.