upset the applecart
Example Sentences
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The US central bank is keen not to upset the applecart but seems to have done so anyway.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2017
Bruce had been using comedy to upset the applecart since his days as a teenage sailor during the Second World War.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2015
But George Bush "would not want to do anything or say anything to upset the applecart."
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The modern Hydra, embracing innumerable adverse factors, would appear at least as many headed as the ancient, for as fast as one is more or less effectively decapitated up comes another to upset the applecart."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
