applecart

A noun with two distinct meanings: it can refer to a handcart used for selling fruit on the street, or idiomatically to a plan or arrangement that is disrupted when someone 'upsets the applecart'.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv mit zwei Bedeutungen: ein Handwagen, mit dem Obst auf der Straße verkauft wird, oder im übertragenen Sinn ein Plan oder eine Vereinbarung, die zunichtegemacht werden, wenn jemand „die Pläne durchkreuzt“ (upsets the applecart).

1. A plan or arrangement B2 informal

   A scheme, plan, or state of affairs that is carefully arranged, often used in the phrase 'upset the applecart' meaning to spoil or disrupt a plan.

   • His sudden resignation really upset the applecart for the whole project.
   • She was worried that her comments would upset the applecart at the family dinner.
   • The new regulations have upset the applecart for many small businesses.

   🇩🇪Plan oder Abmachung

   Synonyme: arrangementdesignenterpriseplanprogramprojectschemeundertaking

2. A street vendor's cart B1 formal british

   A handcart used by a street vendor to sell apples and other fruit in public places.

   • The old man pushed his applecart through the market square.
   • She bought a bag of apples from a street vendor's applecart.
   • The applecart was parked on the corner of the street every morning.

   🇩🇪Obstkarren

   Synonyme: barrowhandcartpushcart

• applecarts plural form
• applecarts' possessive plural form
• applecart's possessive singular form