upset the apple cart
Example Sentences
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After a journalist friend covered her protestations as a news story, Gladstone sensed that staff were unhappy that she had upset the apple cart.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
“It only takes one thing to upset the apple cart, so to speak,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2022
And that is where we upset the apple cart perhaps most profoundly in our approach to presentation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
I had upset the apple cart, you see, when all I wanted to be was a great football player.
From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2020
“The second year, I upset the apple cart by winning,” Sally added with a grin.
From Guilt of the Brass Thieves by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
