to throw a monkey wrench into the works

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• throw a monkey wrench into the works — (USA) If you throw a monkey wrench into the works, you ensure that something fails …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• throw a monkey wrench into the works — wreck a project, monkeywrenching, piss in the pickles    The report that coffee causes cancer threw a monkey wrench into our plans to import coffee …   English idioms

• a monkey wrench in the works — (or schedule, plan, etc.) a person or thing that prevents the successful implementation of a plan even he couldn t throw a monkey wrench into the works | a cancellation can throw a real monkey wrench into the schedule …   Useful english dictionary

• throw\ a\ monkey\ wrench — • throw a monkey wrench • throw a wrench v. phr. informal To cause something that is going smoothly to stop. The game was going smoothly until you threw a monkey wrench into the works by fussing about the rules. The Michigan tacklers threw a… …   Словарь американских идиом

• throw a monkey wrench — or[throw a wrench] {v. phr.}, {informal} To cause something that is going smoothly to stop. * /The game was going smoothly until you threw a monkey wrench into the works by fussing about the rules./ * /The Michigan tacklers threw a wrench into… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• throw a monkey wrench — or[throw a wrench] {v. phr.}, {informal} To cause something that is going smoothly to stop. * /The game was going smoothly until you threw a monkey wrench into the works by fussing about the rules./ * /The Michigan tacklers threw a wrench into… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• throw\ a\ wrench — • throw a monkey wrench • throw a wrench v. phr. informal To cause something that is going smoothly to stop. The game was going smoothly until you threw a monkey wrench into the works by fussing about the rules. The Michigan tacklers threw a… …   Словарь американских идиом

• A Spaniard in the Works — Infobox Book name = A Spaniard in the Works title orig = translator = image caption = author = John Lennon illustrator = cover artist = country = language =English, Swedish series = subject = genre = publisher = pub date = 1965 english pub date …   Wikipedia

• wrench — [[t]re̱ntʃ[/t]] wrenches, wrenching, wrenched 1) VERB If you wrench something that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it. [V n prep] He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...… …   English dictionary

• disrupt — verb 1) the strike disrupted public transit Syn: throw into confusion, throw into disorder, throw into disarray, cause confusion/turmoil in, play havoc with; disturb, interfere with, upset, unsettle; obstruct, impede, hold up, delay, interrupt,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

• wreck — n 1. wrack, mess, total ruin, ruin, havoc; pileup, accident, smash up, crack up, chain accident, collision; shipwreck, Naut. derelict; flotsam and jetsam, wreckage, debris, detritus, ruins, fragments, relics, pieces, remains. 2. destruction,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder