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- disorder
- sink
- make waves
upset the applecart 的定义
- Spoil carefully laid plans, as in Now don't upset the applecart by revealing where we're going. This expression started out as upset the cart, used since Roman times to mean “spoil everything.” The precise idiom dates from the late 1700s.
upset the applecart 近义词
upset the norm
upset the applecart 的近义词 4 个
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- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
- The banquet was paid for with public funds, and taxpayers were understandably upset.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
- It would not do to allow his son to do anything that would upset his dignity, though he loved him very much indeed.
- Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
- I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.