upset the apple cart
Example Sentences
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It made me realize I was still struggling with not wanting to upset the apple cart.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
He was the grown up in the room, the guy who read the briefing papers, understood the spreadsheets and did not upset the apple cart.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023
“It only takes one thing to upset the apple cart, so to speak,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2022
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
"And you might square it, Lyddy, by saying as 'twasn't you who upset the apple cart."
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
