Applecart (Noun)
Meaning 1
A handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
The planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart'.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The company's decision to downsize upset the applecart and threw the entire marketing strategy into chaos.
- When the new policy was announced, it upset the applecart and caused many employees to reevaluate their roles.
- The sudden change in leadership upset the applecart and led to a major overhaul of the project's timeline.
- The discovery of the accounting error upset the applecart and forced the team to redo the entire budget.
- The last-minute cancellation of the keynote speaker upset the applecart and left the event organizers scrambling to find a replacement.