upset the apple cart
upset
adjective
uk /ʌpˈset/ us /ʌpˈset/

upsetadjective (WORRIED)

A2[ after verb ]
worried, unhappy, or angry: 使心烦意乱;使难过;使生气
Don't get upset about the dress - there's only a little stain on it.不要为这条裙子难过了——上面只有一个小污点而已。
[ + to infinitive ]She was very upset to hear that the party had been cancelled.听说聚会取消了，她很沮丧。
[ + that ]He was very upset that you didn't reply to his emails.你没给他回信，他很失望。
He was dreadfully upset.他非常苦恼。
Don't let her get you all upset.不要因为她的缘故而伤心烦恼。
Of course you're upset - it's only natural.当然你会难受——这一点儿也不奇怪。
He was in tears and obviously very upset.他泪流满面，显然很难过。
She's terribly upset because her father passed away last week.她非常难过，因为她父亲上周去世了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wish you had never been bornidiom
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom

upsetadjective (ILL)

B2informal
If you have an upset stomach you feel slightly ill, especially because of something you have eaten or drunk: 形容肚子不舒服（尤其因为吃喝的东西引起的不适）
I have an upset stomach/tummy - serves me right for eating so much.我肚子不舒服——我这是自作自受，谁让自己吃得太多。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Digestive disorders
achalasia
acid reflux
amoebiasis
ancylostomiasis
anti-diarrhoea
appendicitis
coeliac disease
dysphagia
enteritis
enterobiasis
enterocele
enterocolitis
flatulence
gastroenteritis
pancreatitis
peritonitis
primary sclerosing cholangitis
proctitis
PSC
radiation enteritis
upset
noun
uk /ˈʌp.set/ us /ˈʌp.set/

upsetnoun (CHANGE)

[ U ]
confusion and problems: 混乱；麻烦
How much upset will the new monitoring procedures cause?新的监控程序将会带来多大的混乱?
[ C ]
an occasion when someone beats the team or player that was expected to win: 爆冷门
It would be quite an upset if the favourite didn't win.如果这个夺标大热门没有获胜，那就真是一个大冷门。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Upsetting and destabilizing
bring
bring someone down
delegitimize
destabilization
destabilize
disruptive
disruptively
diversionist
knock/throw someone for a loopidiom
loop
make wavesidiom
skid
stir
turn
undermine
unsettle
unsettling
unspool
unspooling
wave

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Winning and defeating

upsetnoun (ILLNESS)

[ C ]informal
a slight illness of the stomach: 肠胃不适
Melanie has a stomach/tummy upset so she won't be going to school today.梅兰妮肚子不舒服，所以今天不去上学了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disease & illness - general words
advanced
aggressiveness
autoimmune disease
bilharzia
bilharziasis
complication
fulminating
gestational
hyperendemic
hypochondriac
iatrogenic
industrial disease
life-threatening
schistosomiasis
second degree
secretory
seizure
serial interval
snail fever
untreated

upset | American Dictionary

upset
verb[ T ]
us/ˌʌpˈset/present participleupsetting | past tense and past participleupset

upsetverb[T] (WORRY)

to make someone worried, unhappy, or angry:
The governor’s veto upset a lot of people.

upsetverb[T] (CHANGE)

to change the usual or expected state or order of something in a way that stops it from happening or working:
The airline strike could upset our vacation plans.

upsetverb[T] (FEEL ILL)

to make your stomach feel bad:
Too much fried food can upset your stomach.
upset
adjective
us/ˌʌpˈset/

upsetadjective (WORRIED)

worried, unhappy, or angry:
Mom gets really upset if we don’t call and tell her where we are.
She was very upset about losing her wallet.

upsetadjective (ILL)

(of the stomach) feeling bad:
Ginger (= the spicy root of a tropical plant) has been used to calm an upset stomach.
upset
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʌpˌset/
(in sports) a surprising victory by a person or team that was expected to lose

Examples of upset

upset
Respondents up the tiger; the tiger is upset.
But rather -just like my relative, he grew rather upset.
Mass movements or, for that matter, vigorous action by public officials may upset the interest group balance.
Those children who had a medical condition or treatment that resulted in upset bowel actions or vomiting (n=283) were excluded from further analysis.
What remains unanswered, and mostly unaddressed, is an explanation of when challengers succeed in upsetting an industry and the standards imposed by dominant firms.
I didn't really need them around to upset me.
I find it hard to get upset about that prospect.
When such institutions emerge they will be stable until another shock upsets the underlying political balance of power and paralyses their adaptive capacity.
Many were upset and frightened that the council was planning to imprison them if they didn't fill in the accompanying form.
This extra freedom upsets the precarious balance that can exist in two dimensions.
The application can be easily transferred en bloc to another location without upsetting the link information.
He knows what to seek and what to avoid, whom to trust and distrust, what will upset his digestion, and so on.
Where there is no adverb, as in the second pair of sentences, the scope relations are not upset if the negative is fronted.
Nor did black marketeering unduly upset moral sensibilities in this region with a long tradition of extra-legal trading and a relatively secure supply base.
For example, they might have been happy or upset about this information being revealed or concealed from another person.
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