| 单词 | applecart |
| 例句 | “Boys always forget other people’s birthdays. “You have committed the following crimes,” he continued: “having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z If you are facing large, unresponsive, deadening and seemingly intractable forces, especially officious or elitist bureaucratic troglodytes, you try to disrupt them, which gives the audience the vicarious pleasure of overturning the applecart. Donald Trump is The Joker: Forget Mussolini and Hitler, the GOP strongman is an authoritarian populist straight from Hollywood 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Todd Phillips’ Joker spins the tale of a pathetic loser who ends up a winner, the low-class upstart who upsets the applecart and explodes the establishment. Send in the crowns: in trumping Venice competition, Joker begins grand slam | Xan Brooks 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z He is an object lesson in how bullish self-confidence and a loud voice can overturn applecarts and shatter glass ceilings. Bafta honours Alan Parker, the director who shattered Hollywood's glass ceiling 2013-01-23T08:01:01Z “I’m not planning to step on nobody’s foot or get in some controversy or turn over the applecart. I’m just going to be Eddie. Whatever comes out, that’s what it’s going to be.” Eddie Murphy, off the couch, is rejuvenated by ‘Dolemite’ 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In the space of a single paragraph, for example, there is “upset the applecart” and “opened up a can of worms.” Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Bruce had been using comedy to upset the applecart since his days as a teenage sailor during the Second World War. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z From applecart and biodiversity to xeriscaping and zucchini, this delightfully readable resource is filled with hope. Build your library — and your gardening skills — with these inspiring books that double as perfect, practical gifts 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z In a competition that has been marked by relative minnows upsetting the applecart on many occasions, South Africa now face the biggest test of nerve and skill in the history of their women’s side. South Africa aim to make history against Nigeria in women’s Afcon final | Aanu Adeoye 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z And I don’t want to upset that applecart. A broken heart reignites Steve Perry’s love for music 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The US central bank is keen not to upset the applecart but seems to have done so anyway. Markets slide after Federal Reserve surprise and ahead of Trump China meeting - business live 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z REG, friend for life unless I do something to upset his moral applecart, is still acting, writing and directing – the crucifixion did not take place. ‘A slag-fest collusion’: Steve Martin on his friend Richard E Grant 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Sanders was willing, like Jackson, to upset the party applecart. The truth about Bernie Sanders & race: Why his biggest weakness could become his greatest strength 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Salveson promises to “upset the applecart” with his candidacy, and he believes he has an outside chance of winning. After Scotland, Yorkshire Fights for Its Independence On September 9 this year the Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, upset the applecart with her annual report. Does wellbeing promote good mental health? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z But the rise of social media has upended that applecart. When the cookies crumbled, so did your web anonymity 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Its decision to focus smartwatch development on Tizen, and announcing a phone based on the platform that is clearly designed to upset the Android applecart. Samsung Shuns Google By Offering Nokia's Here Maps On Galaxy Phones 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z However, another group of businesses, the mHealth Regulatory Coalition, warned against new legislation that will upset the regulatory applecart for no purpose. Mobile Health Apps: Blackburn's SOFTWARE Act Would Limit FDA's Power, Ensure Regulatory Restraint 2013-11-09T13:00:00Z Perhaps its biggest concerns are the continuing reluctance of banks to lend in the weaker euro zone members and rising borrowing costs in those countries since the Fed upset the applecart. World central bank policymakers change gears 2013-06-28T11:40:23Z The ardently faithful want to do nothing that upsets their applecarts - least of all be educated in the way the world really works. Learning From Mistakes Is Harder Than We Think 2013-04-29T15:35:35Z The Fed is going to be the last agent that will want to upset the applecart on the risk-on revival to date. Quantative easing: the markets are struggling with a serious drug habit 2013-02-24T17:58:55Z He keeps upsetting the applecart and he is not a good enough player to justify it. Window shopping: Who needs what in January 2013-01-01T12:02:03Z And those confounded people must go and upset the applecart. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z I wonder first if there have been any major surprises in your work having to do with the early history of Antarctica — say, something that upsets the whole Gondwana applecart. Scientist at Work: Answering Questions About Antarctica 2011-01-22T16:00:18Z Ten to one she wasn't a Commie and would probably never become one—but meanwhile she got a certain amount of kicks trying to upset ideological applecarts. Combat Just a direct pushing over an applecart he couldn't steer! With a Vengeance The other tenth liked things as they were and were quite convinced that the space envoy would upset their applecarts. Off Course Don’t you fret, Billie boy; the spoke we put in their wheel will overturn their applecart! The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine "Nothing much--merely almost upset the applecart for me!" Nobody "In other words, I could have kicked over an applecart?" The Best Made Plans Macedonia at a later date upset the applecart. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 "The modern Hydra, embracing innumerable adverse factors, would appear at least as many headed as the ancient, for as fast as one is more or less effectively decapitated up comes another to upset the applecart." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 With the publication of The Woman's Bible in 1895, Mrs. Stanton almost upset the applecart, stirring up heated controversy in the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Just as I get right into the swing of your hifalutin ways, I go and upset the applecart! Patty and Azalea I admire the spirit of the thing, but I don't want our little applecart upset in the sort of struggle Fyfe and Monohan may stage. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest There's nothing like putting the nervous players in first; it's the sitting with their pads on that upsets their applecart; that was another of my reasons for being so confoundedly close. The Amateur Cracksman Adrian,' he says, 'was there anything wrong with the men who upset Van Bester's applecart last month when he was trying to cross the line to join Piper with those horses he'd stole from Gabbitas?' Traffics and Discoveries Without you I can't do anything but kick over the applecart for Whit Monk; and that sort of revenge is mighty unsatisfactory. Alias the Lone Wolf But he felt sure that to call in the rest of the household, or to take the narrator out to them would—as he expressed it to himself "upset her applecart and spill the beans!" Raspberry Jam |
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