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wrenches in the works

wrenches in the works is the plural of wrench in the works.

Meaning of wrench in the works

Noun

wrench in the works (plural wrenches in the works)

  1. (US) Synonym of spanner in the works.
    • Such a big staff, with ludicrously little to do, inevitably began interfering with arrangements made by the army commanders. Its actual efforts at coordination were from the start so many wrenches in the works.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 72

Questions about wrenches in the works

What is wrenches in the works the plural of?
Wrenches in the works is the plural of wrench in the works.

Words near wrenches in the works in the dictionary

  1. wrench react
  2. wrenched
  3. wrencher
  4. wrenchers
  5. wrenches
  6. wrenches in the works
  7. wrencheth
  8. wrenchful
  9. wrenching
  10. wrenchingly
  11. wrenchings

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