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spanner

noun as in monkey wrench

Weak matches

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Alongside some very high-tech electronics and digital work, there are still plenty of screwdrivers and spanners.

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However, Wales will relish the chance to stick a spanner in the spokes and puncture such title pretensions.

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Itoje was a menace around the breakdown, turning over ball and putting a spanner in Scotland's attacking spokes as the referee let play flow.

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"If I take my car into the mechanics, I've got to trust that he's not just going to bash it with his spanner and charge me a grand."

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Unable to get a job as an accountant since graduating five years ago, Ghanaian Nathaniel Qainoo has been forced to swap his calculator for a spanner.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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