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upset the apple cart
verb as in balk
verb as in disrupt
verb as in foil
Strong matches
verb as in rock the boat
Example Sentences
It made me realize I was still struggling with not wanting to upset the apple cart.
After a journalist friend covered her protestations as a news story, Gladstone sensed that staff were unhappy that she had upset the apple cart.
He was the grown up in the room, the guy who read the briefing papers, understood the spreadsheets and did not upset the apple cart.
He was the grown up in the room, the guy who read the briefing papers, understood the spreadsheets and did not upset the apple cart.
The man said he decided he “didn’t want to upset the apple cart.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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