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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a spanner" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in British English to refer to a tool used for turning nuts and bolts, or metaphorically to indicate something that causes a disruption or complication.
Example: "When I tried to implement the new software, a spanner was thrown into the works when the server crashed."
Alternatives: "a wrench" or "a tool".
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It's a spanner to them.
However, the party could be a spanner in the works.
"It really throws a spanner in the works," one said.
Spielberg was about to throw a spanner in the works.
But Brexit has thrown a spanner in the works".
It is all too easy to throw a spanner in the works.
But a Republican win in Massachusetts today could still throw a spanner in the works.
But now members of the European Parliament have thrown a spanner in the works.
That would throw a spanner into the works of its money-spinning advertising machine.
With that, it flung a spanner into his campaign to be elected president.
We consider self-stabilizing and self-organizing distributed construction of a spanner that forms an expander.
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