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monkey wrench
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" Monkey Wrench " is the first single released from the second Foo Fighters album, The Colour and the Shape . The lyrics chronicle the 1997 disintegration of singer/songwriter Dave Grohl 's four-year marriage to Jennifer Youngblood. The song peaked at number ...
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n. adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw [syn: monkey-wrench ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw. 2 (context idiomatic English) An unexpected or troublesome problem, obstacle or dilemma.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
monkeywrench \monkeywrench\, monkey wrench \monkey wrench\n. A wrench or spanner which has one fixed and one adjustable jaw. Syn: monkey wrench.
Usage examples of monkey wrench.
You can't tell a left-handed monkey wrench from a reaction engine, yet you ask me for blue prints of a space ship.
And when he got there he started hitting people over the haid with his monkey wrench.
This latest development had thrown a monkey wrench into the whole plan.
As far as I knew at that point, a Fomit could have been anything from a lefthanded monkey wrench to a Polish steak knife.
With the gun to hold off Chia's gang, and with Klein as hostage, there would be a chance to throw a monkey wrench into the mad plan to bomb the starship.
In the scrimmage I made a fool of myself as usual, and slugged the wrong man with a monkey wrench.
And then he faced a new problem, for when he took from his kit the special monkey wrench and fitted it to one of the nuts, he found he could accomplish nothing.
Pulling it open, he drew out what seemed to be a monkey wrench wrapped in sacking.
But who would bury a monkey wrench, even for the best car England ever made?