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UK
/ˈæpəlkˌɑːt/
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NOUN
- the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart'
- a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
How To Use applecart In A Sentence
- They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.
- It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely. PROSPECT HILL
- Her refusal to help quite upset the applecart.
- They'd rather upset the applecart, and show what big bad councillors they are. PROSPECT HILL
- It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely. PROSPECT HILL
- He did several set designs for the left-wing Unity Theatre, including productions of Shaw's The Applecart, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the last employing a non-realistic design separating the stage with cheesecloth screens.
- They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.
- Names such as ammoniated tincture of valerian can safely be revealed without upsetting the psychological applecart.
- They'd rather upset the applecart, and show what big bad councillors they are. PROSPECT HILL
