monkeywrench

monkeywrench
monkey wrench © School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company n.
1. A hand tool with adjustable jaws for turning nuts of varying sizes.
2. Informal. Something that disrupts:

He threw a monkey wrench into our plans.

  [Origin unknown.]

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