Sentence examples for a big spanner from inspiring English sources

Corbyn told the Sunday Mirror: "The court has thrown a big spanner in the works by saying parliament must be consulted.

It's the big spanner in the works!

Let's hope somebody throws a large spanner in the works.

Ganatra said that Yusef will turn "very manipulative and very nasty" and Masood finds him as a big threat saying, "He throws a real spanner in the works for Masood.

So it can be quite a spectacle when a big player refuses to go by the rules and throws a spanner in the works.

If he ever thought about himself as a grown-up man, a static vision implanted itself in his mind: an image of a big man in a white T-shirt with blue work-pants and big, brown working boots, carrying a spanner.

Health-care reform, as Vice-President Joe Biden remarked when Mr Obama signed it, is a "big fucking deal", and there have not been too many of those in a presidency whose defining characteristic has been partisan gridlock.Yet for all that, it is possible that the Supreme Court, by throwing a spanner into the works, may actually help Mr Obama as much as hurt him.

She also noted that while there is no theoretical limit as to how big a Cloud Spanner database can be (and she also stressed that there's no reason you couldn't use it for smaller projects, as well), the main advantage here isn't necessarily scalability but also the ability to do global transactions.

There will be a Comb, a Spanner and Scissors.

Arguably the biggest economic spanner in the government's works has been far less growth in the economy than it hoped for.

Models in his show wore a brooch worn with tiny charms of a spanner, a ratchet, pliers and an axe.