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"The decision has been made at the highest levels not to tip over this applecart."

It would take more than a couple of little bombs to upset this applecart.

We don't on the whole mind the isolation until something happens to rock the applecart - a death, a loss, a crisis.

Meanwhile his old supporters have scattered to upset another applecart.

But they'll always love wading in and upsetting the applecart.

It is the scale of the structure in a show garden which, I believe, often upsets the applecart.

He ordered them destroyed before they upset the Directorate applecart.

Why does it want to upset the applecart?

They don't really want to upset the applecart, not as long as they're getting their pick of the apples.

"It doesn't take much, just a word sometimes to upset the logical applecart," Bickel said.

It would save us the problem of having twenty people nominated by their friends and possibly upsetting the applecart.

"If one exec should give away something he's not supposed to, it would upset the whole applecart.

A thousand pities to have her applecart upset again!

"Can't see an applecart without wanting to upset it.

And if that upset somebody's applecart, too goddam bad.

But Potter wasn't ready to upset the Confederate applecart on a maybe.

Tell Rile that I have upset his deadly little applecart?

"Right-and then along came Buddha to kick over the applecart.

All this has upset the applecart of the relation of fertility to prosperity.

His idea is to leave broadcast television - the programs that come over the air - exactly as is, without toppling anyone's applecart.

He could upset their little applecart, their nice little world."

With Henne, that same kind of pressure upsets the applecart and destroys the play far too often.

After tearing around, spewing out ideas, upsetting the applecart, ticking people off, he ended up with a winner.

She was right up on top of the load after a hard climb, and she was going to do nothing to upset the applecart.