"apple-cart" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "apple-carts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "apple-cart (plural apple-carts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "applecart"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, J. Rush Bronson, Clarence M. Hunt, The Grizzly Bear - Volumes 9-11, page 31",
          "text": "Then some rude soldiers, also from another nation, pushed through the crowd to take a look for themselves, and with great violence tney ran against the apple-cart of the old woman standing there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Nation and Athenæum - Volume 31, page 559",
          "text": "But unless one has lost one's senses one does not upset the apple-cart unless one can count on collecting some at least of the apples which roll to the ground.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Outlook and Independent - Volume 156, page 505",
          "text": "The doctor is being kept away from a great many homes right now, and a lot of people whose first purchase was a friendly gesture in behalf of the unemployed will doubtless stay on the apple-cart permanently, having discovered that it is a good place on which to ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Woodall, Atonement: God's Means of Effecting Man's Reconciliation, page 123",
          "text": "Some have remained silent for fear of upsetting the dogmatic apple-cart or, perhaps, in some misguided attempt to preserve “the unity of the Spirit” (eph 4:3).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of applecart"
      ],
      "id": "en-apple-cart-en-noun-WtttwbB6",
      "links": [
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          "applecart",
          "applecart#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "apple-cart"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "apple-carts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "apple-cart (plural apple-carts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "applecart"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, J. Rush Bronson, Clarence M. Hunt, The Grizzly Bear - Volumes 9-11, page 31",
          "text": "Then some rude soldiers, also from another nation, pushed through the crowd to take a look for themselves, and with great violence tney ran against the apple-cart of the old woman standing there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Nation and Athenæum - Volume 31, page 559",
          "text": "But unless one has lost one's senses one does not upset the apple-cart unless one can count on collecting some at least of the apples which roll to the ground.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Outlook and Independent - Volume 156, page 505",
          "text": "The doctor is being kept away from a great many homes right now, and a lot of people whose first purchase was a friendly gesture in behalf of the unemployed will doubtless stay on the apple-cart permanently, having discovered that it is a good place on which to ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Woodall, Atonement: God's Means of Effecting Man's Reconciliation, page 123",
          "text": "Some have remained silent for fear of upsetting the dogmatic apple-cart or, perhaps, in some misguided attempt to preserve “the unity of the Spirit” (eph 4:3).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of applecart"
      ],
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          "applecart#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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  ],
  "word": "apple-cart"
}