upset the applecart

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.