>>1566265 (last bread)
upset the apple cart means loosely, getting in the way of your own plans. POTUS is telling us that all of this goes directly back to Obama by inferring that [he] meaning [jugears] didn't want to 'upset the apple cart'
"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].
Since then, this saying hasn’t changed much, though it seems it might be a mostly North American saying. However, it shouldn’t pose any confusion for most English speakers, so using it to express the way plans have been wrecked in one way or another would be very appropriate:"