throwing a wrench
Arabic translation: يضعون العراقيل
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| 18:03 Nov 8, 2011 |
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|  Selected response from: Liliane Hatem Lebanon Local time: 08:05 | ||||||
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| 4 +2 | يضعون العراقيل |
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| 4 +1 | تقَوِّض |
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| 4 | يعرقلون |
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| throwing a wrench into the cogs |
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10 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2يضعون العراقيل Explanation: put/throw a spanner in the works (British & Australian) also put/throw a (monkey) wrench in the works (American) to do something that prevents a plan or activity from succeeding -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2011-11-08 18:15:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- امام الجهود المبذولة لـــــ.... |
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6 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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6 mins peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: throwing a wrench into the cogs Reference information: expression with over 5.000 hits in Google - means to sabotage something, to seriously impede something from working. BTW - look for Sabotage - where the term comes from |
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