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Meanings of throw a wrench in English

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Usage of throw a wrench in English
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Which is going to throw a wrench in the health insurance industry.
Wired
2
Maybe throw a wrench or so in the works once inna while.
Adaptation
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But increasing tensions between India and Pakistan could throw a wrench in the works.
The Irish Times
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The latest hiring initiative could throw a wrench into Wells Fargo's plans to cut costs.
Reuters
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This is going to throw a wrench into the argument that the economy is slowing down.
Reuters
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I've got to figure out how to throw a wrench into Cowl's gears during the Darkhallow.
Dead beat
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Usually, that means Pyongyang using its GPS jammers to try and throw a wrench in the exercise.
Wired
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No matter how organized one may be, life always manages to throw a wrench in your plans.
Ebony
9
Trump seemed to offer a rare chance to throw a wrench into the works, and many took it.
The Guardian
10
There's nothing like the worst recession in a generation to throw a wrench into the best-laid financial plans.
Ebony
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We'll find out sometime after that if Cooper & Kirk has managed to throw a wrench into the proceedings.
Reuters
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The controversy could throw a wrench in the race that had Blumenthal, a popular Democrat, favored to win Dodd's seat.
Reuters
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Some of US Soccer's figures, which it released on Monday, will throw a wrench in the women's lawsuit seeking equal pay.
The Guardian
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It's some of our own internal people who are against the proposed agreement who could still throw a wrench into the works.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
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This would throw a wrench into his theory about the crime, because now DNA evidence placed Gray Wolf at the scene, too.
Second glance
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On its face the story of the virus and the tulip would seem to throw a wrench into any evolutionary understanding of beauty.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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Throw a wrench across language varieties
United States of America
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