Definition of "applecart" []

• A barrow from which apples and other fruit were formerly sold in the street (noun)
• A planned situation. Back-formation from upset the applecart. (noun)

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• "At the very moment when the underdeveloped countries of the world need our united and intelligently planned help more than ever before, the African applecart is not only being upset, but overturned."
• ""jurisprudence constante", which means "don't rule on a whim". (no lawyer can understand a concept until it's been translated into Latin) Don't upset the applecart is the conservative frame of mind."
• "PARIS—Gustave and Martial Caillebotte were born into a large, wealthy Parisian family in the mid-19th century, just as the city was in the ferment of transformation: Baron Haussmann was turning medieval streets into wide boulevards, steam trains revolutionized travel and the Impressionists were upsetting the art world's academic applecart."