apple cartとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

apple cart (複数形 apple carts)

1. Alternative form of applecart
   1. Barrow with apples.
      • 2000, The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, →ISBN:

        In addition to the special menu, the restaurant also organised a schools' morning that involved children from one school pushing a laden apple cart from Freshers greengrocers, who provided a lot of the fruit, over Richmond Bridge to the restaurant.

      • 2013, Allan Woodrow, The Pet War, →ISBN:

        People flocked to my squeaky red wagon apple cart.

      • 2015, Mike Weber, Our Muddled Millennium, →ISBN:

        There once was a simple man who pushed his apple cart down the street each day, selling apples from his cart.

   2. Planned situation.
      • 2013, George Deeb, 101 Startup Lessons: An Entrepreneur's Handbook, →ISBN, page 10:

        As, it may be cheaper to ultimately build the solution yourself, and not have to deal with any of the business combination or cultural integration issues of a merger or acquisition. Proceed only with caution here, to not upset the apple cart.

      • 2015, Percival Constantine, Curse of the Necronomicon:

        Might upset the apple cart if you go off on a hunt for your ex.

      • 2015, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, →ISBN:

        What makes this particular period so revolutionary is that people are now doing rather than simply watching all of this. They are taking hold of the apple cart and shaking the hell out of it.

名詞

apple-cart (複数形 apple-carts)

1. Alternative form of applecart
   • 1911, J. Rush Bronson & ‎Clarence M. Hunt, The Grizzly Bear - Volumes 9-11, page 31:

     Then some rude soldiers, also from another nation, pushed through the crowd to take a look for themselves, and with great violence tney ran against the apple-cart of the old woman standing there.

   • 1922, The Nation and Athenæum - Volume 31, page 559:

     But unless one has lost one's senses one does not upset the apple-cart unless one can count on collecting some at least of the apples which roll to the ground.

   • 1930, Outlook and Independent - Volume 156, page 505:

     The doctor is being kept away from a great many homes right now, and a lot of people whose first purchase was a friendly gesture in behalf of the unemployed will doubtless stay on the apple-cart permanently, having discovered that it is a good place on which to ride.

   • 2015, Chris Woodall, Atonement: God's Means of Effecting Man's Reconciliation, ISBN 1498207960, page 123:

     Some have remained silent for fear of upsetting the dogmatic apple-cart or, perhaps, in some misguided attempt to preserve “the unity of the Spirit” (eph 4:3).

別の表記

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