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What (who) is upset the apple cart - definition

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Upset of the year; Ring Magazine Upset of the Year; Ring Magazine upset of the year; Upset of the Year; Ring Magazine upsets of the year

upset the apple cart      
spoil a plan.
The Ring magazine Upset of the Year         
The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has since named an Upset of the Year since 1970. The award, based on the magazine's writers' criteria, is given to a fight that resulted in an outcome that was highly contrary to general expectations.
Aircraft upset         
Jetupset; Jet upset; Airplane upset
Aircraft upset is a dangerous condition in aircraft operations in which the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the normal bounds of operation for which it is designed. This may result in the loss of control (LOC) of the aircraft, and sometimes the total loss of the aircraft itself.

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The Ring magazine Upset of the Year

The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has since named an Upset of the Year since 1970. The award, based on the magazine's writers' criteria, is given to a fight that resulted in an outcome that was highly contrary to general expectations.

Examples of use of upset the apple cart
1. What could upset the apple cart is internal developments on the disengagement.
2. But as I noted before, they no longer have a total monopoly of power and influence.'4; Political bloggers have upset the apple cart from time to time," said Kline.
3. "If you‘re going to upset the apple cart, you‘ve got to have someone who can put things together again afterwards, and there‘s not really an obvious person to do that." Support for Labor is at its lowest in more than 20 years, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
4. While the treasury and Bank of Israel are busy putting together emergency plans and preparing for a possible recession, Barak, Yishai and Eitan have decided this is exactly the time to upset the apple cart, change the entire leadership, waste billions on elections, freeze reforms, not pass the budget in the Knesset and paralyze the government for months.
5. "They are happy with the way things are going in Iraq and don‘t want anything to upset the apple cart in a way that will make the surge look problematic." A senior Iranian cleric warned that Iran will respond to external threats.