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apple cart en · NOUN
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Alternative form of applecart. ▸ Barrow with apples.
In addition to the special menu, the restaurant also organised a schools' morning that involved children from one school pushing a laden apple cart from Freshers greengrocers, who provided a lot of the fruit, over Richmond Bridge to the restaurant.
2000, The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, →ISBN:There once was a simple man who pushed his apple cart down the street each day, selling apples from his cart.
2015, Mike Weber, Our Muddled Millennium, →ISBN:People flocked to my squeaky red wagon apple cart.
2013, Allan Woodrow, The Pet War, →ISBN:
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Alternative form of applecart. ▸ Planned situation.
upset the apple cart
What makes this particular period so revolutionary is that people are now doing rather than simply watching all of this. They are taking hold of the apple cart and shaking the hell out of it.
2015, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, →ISBN:
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