I carry woven ribbons and candy grass on Easter morning, but if you call an anxious, flustered person by my full two-word phrase, you are saying they have completely fallen apart under stress. What am I?
A basket case
A basket holds Easter gifts, but the idiom 'basket case' describes someone rendered helpless by extreme stress or panic.
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