Definition
To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.
In Context
- "“There are three reasons,” Trent answered. “First, he may find his way to England and upset the applecart; […]”"
- "She told me herself just now that the worst was over. And those confounded people must go and upset the applecart."
- "Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill."
- "This kind of impact causes contusions in the front and back areas of the brain and can create microscopic bleeding and shearing of neural pathways, causing synapses to misfire, upsetting the applecart of your brain, sometimes forever."
Also Said As
- cook someone's goose
- drive a coach and horses through
- ball up
- blight
- bumble
- botch
- bugger up
- bungle
- contaminate
- corrupt
- crab
- deprave
- disrupt
- disturb
- foil
- fuck up
- jack up
- mar
- mess up
- mishandle
- mommick
- pollute
- put a crimp in
- queer
- ruin
- screw up
- soil
- sour
- spoil
- stain
- undo
- upset
- turn upside down
- upset the applecart
- vitiate
- burst someone's bubble
- piss in someone's cornflakes
- piss in someone's Cheerios
- piss on someone's bonfire
- piss on someone's chips
- put a damper on
- piss on someone's campfire
- rain on someone's parade
- shit in someone's cereal
- shit in someone's Cheerios
- take the wind out of someone's sails
- upset the applecart