Use "applecart" in a sentence

1. aware of the activities going on with the Confederates, and both were relentless in their efforts to upset the Confederate applecart

2. The British Empire tried to play the exact same fucking diplomatic/public relations card in WW2 as it did in WW1: As an elderly uncle trying to keep the little children of Europe from squabbling and upsetting its fucking Imperial applecart of being the largest most powerful Empire in the world

3. North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to the winds