applecarts
Vendor's wheeled stands
Applecarts is the plural of applecart, a cart for selling or transporting apples.
The word appears almost exclusively in the idiom upset the applecart—to disrupt carefully laid plans or a stable situation.
The image is of toppling a vendor's cart and scattering fruit everywhere.
Their surprise announcement upset everyone's applecarts.
One who sells goods
- streetPublic urban roadway
- marketVenue for trade
- pushcartManual wheeled vendor vehicle
- fruitEdible plant ovary
wheels · wooden · stall · peddler · produce · barrow · merchant · cobblestones
Disturb, topple, or shock
- overturnReverse or invalidate
- disruptInterrupt and disorder
- plansIntended courses of action
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
routine · status quo · equilibrium · order · arrangement · stability · expectations · balance
vendor
One who sells goods
fruit · wheels · wooden · stall · peddler · produce · barrow · merchant · cobblestones · display
upset
Disturb, topple, or shock
scheme · routine · status quo · equilibrium · order · arrangement · stability · expectations · balance · system
applecartsbrick-and-mortar stores
Shops with street addresses
supermarkets · storefronts · grocery stores · department stores · warehouses
applecartschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · disruption · upheaval · turmoil · wreckage
- upsets the applecartDisturbs established order
- upsetting the applecartSpoiling existing arrangements