Interfering or disturbing an operation that was going in a smooth manner; destabilizing the progression of something
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- Monk was a person who constructed a tool in 1856 and the tool was named Monk’s wrench. However, the name of the tool was changed to monkey wrench later on. People used to remind money with the sliding jaw of the tool and that nickname is still in the minds of people. This is a saying of late 19th from U.S and this expression is just like throwing monkey wrench in a machine that’s working in a perfect manner.
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Darren’s certainly threw a monkey wrench into the works when he visited the construction road.
Submitted on February 25, 2019
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