apple cart

English

Noun

apple cart (plural apple carts)

1. Alternative form of applecart
   1. Barrow with apples.
      • 2000, The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, →ISBN:

        In addition to the special menu, the restaurant also organised a schools' morning that involved children from one school pushing a laden apple cart from Freshers greengrocers, who provided a lot of the fruit, over Richmond Bridge to the restaurant.

      • 2013, Allan Woodrow, The Pet War, →ISBN:

        People flocked to my squeaky red wagon apple cart.

      • 2015, Mike Weber, Our Muddled Millennium, →ISBN:

        There once was a simple man who pushed his apple cart down the street each day, selling apples from his cart.

   2. Planned situation.
      • 2013, George Deeb, 101 Startup Lessons: An Entrepreneur's Handbook, →ISBN, page 10:

        As, it may be cheaper to ultimately build the solution yourself, and not have to deal with any of the business combination or cultural integration issues of a merger or acquisition. Proceed only with caution here, to not upset the apple cart.

      • 2015, Percival Constantine, Curse of the Necronomicon:

        Might upset the apple cart if you go off on a hunt for your ex.

      • 2015, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, →ISBN:

        What makes this particular period so revolutionary is that people are now doing rather than simply watching all of this. They are taking hold of the apple cart and shaking the hell out of it.