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monkey wrench

NOUN
  1. adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw

How To Use monkey wrench In A Sentence

  • It puts a monkey wrench to your plans. Times, Sunday Times
  • And some parents think a job in engineering means wearing a boiler suit and carrying a monkey wrench. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those were looked upon with a bit of scorn by the Veteran's Administration as a group of political appointees that had to be pacified and kept quiet and not allowed to throw any monkey wrenches in the working of the machinery of appellate judication. Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • It puts a monkey wrench to your plans. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frank stews and then arms himself with a monkey wrench and takes to the streets to fight crime. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is then hit with a monkey wrench and given electric shocks. The Sun
  • He is then hit with a monkey wrench and given electric shocks. The Sun
  • I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench. In which of the states is it easiest to talk to strangers?
  • There is no such thing as a tappet, a left-handed monkey wrench or a sky hook. Ask Mr. Fix-It!
  • But the boss threw a monkey wrench into our plans today when he told me I have to go to a business meeting in New York next week.
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