upset the pot

English

Verb

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

  1. (horse racing, slang) To beat the favourite in a race.
    • 1897, Nat Gould, Not So Bad After All, page 126:
      Your horse Prince Henry, the fellow that nearly upset the pot at Kempton, was well in the Lincoln Handicap.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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