English Explanatory Dictionary

upset the applecart

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

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Word forms

upset the applecart upsets the applecart upsetting the applecart upset the apple cart

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
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