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Happy Monday, and welcome to the next installment of Say What?, in which we discover the origins of (Don’t) upset the applecart and The apple never falls far from the tree. With examples from Supernatural.
(Don’t) upset the applecart.
The earliest version of this saying is attributed to the Romans, who would exclaim Perii, plaustrum perculi, or “I am undone; I have upset my wagon!” In other words, the person whose wagon, or cart, was overturned (or the person who overturned the cart) had managed to spoil everything. And that’s how this expression has been used over time: it means “to cause trouble, difficulty, or upset, especially by spoiling someone’s plans.”
The apples didn’t come into play until 1788 and Jeremy Belknap’s publication of The History of New Hampshire, in which he described how John Adams nearly caused some serious trouble while forming the government of the United States:
Adams had almost overset the apple-cart by intruding an amendment of his own fabrication on the morning of the day of ratification [of the Constitution].
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Happy Monday, and welcome to the next installment of Say What?, in which we discover the origins of (Don’t) upset the applecart and The apple never falls far from the tree. With examples from Supernatural.
(Don’t) upset the applecart.
The earliest version of this saying is attributed to the Romans, who would exclaim Perii, plaustrum perculi, or “I am undone; I have upset my wagon!” In other words, the person whose wagon, or cart, was overturned (or the person who overturned the cart) had managed to spoil everything. And that’s how this expression has been used over time: it means “to cause trouble, difficulty, or upset, especially by spoiling someone’s plans.”
The apples didn’t come into play until 1788 and Jeremy Belknap’s publication of The History of New Hampshire, in which he described how John Adams nearly caused some serious trouble while forming the government of the United States:
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