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Exploring Idioms: A Critical-Thinking Resource for Grades 4-8
Upset. the. Applecart. Definition: To spoil, ruin, or mess up a plan or situation.
Background: Upset the applecart is an old phrase with a newer twist. The ancient
Romans said, upset the cart. Apple was added during the late 1700s, presumably
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Valeri R. Helterbran, 2008
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Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-linguistic Model of ...
For instance, the idiom upset the applecart also belongs to the group of
isomorphic idioms with the definite article in the base-form (its underlying
conceptual motivation has been discussed extensively in Section 4.7.1 and is
further sketched in ...
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The PIMS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance
Chapter 7 Capital Intensity Can Upset the Applecart In Chapters 5 and 6 we saw
how your business's financial performance is driven by the competitive position
that it attains in the markets that you've chosen to serve. Profitability also depends
...
Robert Dow Buzzell, Bradley T. Gale, 1987
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Playwrights in Rehearsal:
The Seduction of Company
walk to the meadow, he says: “I think frequently the director is afraid the play—
wright will upset the applecart. The responsibility is not to upset the applecart but
help the applecart carry the apples better.” Watching the run—through are the ...
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Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
UPSET THE APPLECART to upset the applecart. To ruin someone's carefully laid
plans. MWCD: 1788. Source: APPLE. MWCD: O.E. An applecart was once a
pushcart in which fresh apples were displayed for sale in the tray on top. In the
19th ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
This term was first recorded in 1659. upset the applecart Spoil carefully laid plans
, as in Now don't upset the applecart by revealing where we're going. This
expression started out as upset the cart, used since Roman times to mean “spoil
...
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Let's Bring Back:
The Lost Language Edition: A Compendium of ...
UPSET THE APPLECART To cause trouble or difficulties, or upset the norm. The
image of hundreds of apples tumbling across a floor perfectly illustrates the
chaos that often results from challenging the status quo. UPSODOWN Topsy—
turvy ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
In upset the applecart there seems to be a merging of two senses: body and, in
dialect, plan; originating app. ca 1800, this phrase > coll ca 1850. apple-cart,
upset the old woman's ; upset the apple-cart and spill the gooseberries (or
peaches).
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
UPSET upset the/somebody's applecart (a) spoil a plan (b) disprove a theory (a)
His late arrival quite upset the applecart. (b) By presenting fresh evidence 1 upset
his applecart. USE I, etc. could use a drinks etc I, etc., would very much like a ...
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The Sterling Book of Idioms
... the/somebody's applecart (a) spoil a plan (b) disprove a theory (a) His late
arrival quite upset the applecart. (b) By presenting fresh evidence I upset his
applecart. quick/slow on the uptake quick/slow to understand I dropped several
hints that ...
