applecart in the PONS Dictionary

applecart Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to upset the applecart
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The steep increase in the cost of construction material has rocked the builders' applecart.
www.thehindu.com
But there's no doubt it has upset the applecart because he courts controversy in a way others haven't here.
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The psychiatrists are part of a medical system which is not an upsetter of applecarts, not a moral force in the world -- simply a business.
www.macleans.ca
You don't want to upset the applecart.
www.telegraph.co.uk
In other words, something very dramatic will have to happen for someone to upset the existing applecart.
www.independent.co.uk
Both are fine strikers in their own right -- but, again, why upset the applecart so much to change things just for the sake of it?
www.punditarena.com
You know there's going to be a crowd down there, and that you've got the chance to upset the applecart and have the bragging rights.
www.bexhillobserver.net
This makes him an outsider in the smelly corridors of state power, an outsider who could upset the rotten applecart any time.
nation.com.pk
A strange fossilised snake possessing four limbs which it could use for walking or gripping things has upset the applecart in the world of palaeo-snake boffinry.
www.theregister.co.uk
At any time the whole psychological applecart might be upset.
en.wikipedia.org

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