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upset the applecart

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: idiomatic

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 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 cereal, piss in someone's Cheerios, piss in someone's cornflakes, piss on someone's chips, piss on someone's bonfire, piss on someone's campfire, put a damper on, rain on someone's parade, shit in someone's cereal, shit in someone's Cheerios, shit in someone's cornflakes, take the wind out of someone's sails

Antonyms: none provided

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