upset the apple cart
Example Sentences
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After a journalist friend covered her protestations as a news story, Gladstone sensed that staff were unhappy that she had upset the apple cart.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
“And I didn’t feel like there was any need to upset the apple cart there. We’ll keep going how we are.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022
And that is where we upset the apple cart perhaps most profoundly in our approach to presentation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
I had upset the apple cart, you see, when all I wanted to be was a great football player.
From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2020
"Won't it upset the apple cart to-morrow," he said, very loudly; "won't it?"
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
