What is "monkey wrenches"

Usage examples of "monkey wrenches".

I spent hours at pay phones, calling in political favors and started a congressional investigation into the SEC's investigation, which was sure to throw a few monkey wrenches into their plans, as well as prevent them from getting too loose with their interpretation of the law.

To do that, we throw monkey wrenches into the political gears and focus just on what we need.

Finally, in the 1920s, some real left-handed monkey wrenches in one of these mystic lodges recruited Adolph Hitler, and he not only read the book backward, like all of them, but insisted on believing it was the story of the exterior, physical universe.

Who knows, we might even be able to place a coupla monkey wrenches of our own.

Next door is the antique car and truck museum with everything from a very antique hearse to snowplows and the world's biggest monkey wrench collectionmore than 1,006 unique monkey wrenches.

Upon finding documents that proved White House and Pentagon interest in the experiments, Alobar began to throw monkey wrenches at the delicate machinery.

Now they've got real power, not that hopeless pissant rebel shit with the Molotovs and the monkey wrenches and the builshit manifestos, I mean real power, real plans, terrible power, terrible plans.

Ahasuerus, and then I spent half the night on his shuttlecraft's radio selling his company on the idea of a traveling carnival, and the whole time I had to make sure Romany didn't throw any monkey wrenches into the deal, and I've spent most of today convincing a bunch of con men that I'm not trying to pull the biggest con of all.

The dash held compass, maps, sunglasses, sticky Styrofoam cups, and two monkey wrenches.

I tell you, there is a surfeit of left-handed monkey wrenches in the world compared to the supply of worthwhile students.