upset the pot

verb

To beat the favourite in a race.

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Meanings

verbupset the pot (third-person singular simple present upsets the pot, present participle upsetting the pot, simple past and past participle upset the pot)

present singular third person upsets the pot · participle present upsetting the pot

  1. slanghobbiesTo beat the favourite in a race.

    Your horse Prince Henry, the fellow that nearly upset the pot at Kempton, was well in the Lincoln Handicap.

    1897, Nat Gould, Not So Bad After All, page 126
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