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Thing that might be upset ... and what is "upset" in this puzzle's scrambled theme
Answer for the clue "Thing that might be upset ... and what is "upset" in this puzzle's scrambled theme ", 9 letters:
applecart
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Word definitions for applecart in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A barrow from which apples and other fruit were formerly sold in the street 2 A planned situation. (back-form upset the applecart English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
Usage examples of applecart.
It occurred to me fretfully that I should have asked him what was to keep our enemies from simply killing me, if all that was needed to upset the political applecart was to keep Bonforte (in his proper person, or through his double) from attending some barbaric Martian ceremony.
These damned Engelists are trying to upset the applecart and take over.
We're here to upset the Engelist applecart, and get Firenze back on the road to progress.
Face it, Deanna…I’m upsetting your nice little intellectual applecart.
But Data would have to be judicious—he didn’t want to upset the applecart of time, and he would be very, very careful as to what he did and how he did it.
North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to the winds.
Without you I can't do anything but kick over the applecart for Whit Monk.
The exposure to the authorities of Klaus Winzer's file upset a lot of Odessa applecarts.
There's been something lying quiet down here ever since pa disappeared, and we've upset the applecart.
She was right up on top of the load after a hard climb, and she was going to do nothing to upset the applecart.
Francesco Berger took over, and was so genial, so anxious to put Schnak at her ease, suggested so often that he approved of what had been done, that he almost upset the applecart.
But Data would have to be judicious he didn't want to upset the applecart of time, and he would be very, very careful as to what he did and how he did it.
That'll bring all of them down on anyone who tries to upset the applecart.
Sooner or later, after all, there would be a female President, and that would really upset the applecart, a fact well known but studiously ignored to this point in American history.