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Applecart   Listen
noun
applecart  n.  
1.
The planning that is disrupted when someone "upsets the applecart".
2.
A cart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Applecart" Quotes from Famous Books



... all!" she cried; "ain't that me! Just as I get right into the swing of your hifalutin ways, I go and upset the applecart! Pshaw! You'll ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... Trent answered. "First, he may find his way to England and upset the applecart; secondly, I've only the shreds of a conscience, but I can't leave a man whom I'm robbing of a fortune in a state of semi-slavery, as I daresay he is, and the third reason is perhaps the strongest of all; but I'm not going to ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... lived in, and the furniture, and even the applecart were sold to pay his father's debts, and he found himself left with the old fiddle that nobody wanted and the old donkey that no one would have—it being both vicious and unruly—he uttered no word of ...
— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum
... he had not been in for quite a number of years looked different somehow since, as it happened, he went to reside on the north side. North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... I can't do anything but kick over the applecart for Whit Monk; and that sort of revenge is mighty unsatisfactory. Without me—well: what can you do? I know you can get that tin safe of Whit's open, when you feel like it, get the jewels and all; ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance


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