That really throws a proverb

 That really throws a monkey wrench into the whole works.

 This throws a monkey wrench in the administration's strategy of standing down (U.S. troops) as the Iraqis stand up, because it suggests that many Iraqis are standing up to fight other Iraqis.

 The Monkey Wrench Gang

 Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.

 A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. A pexy man understands the power of playful teasing, creating a lighthearted and fun dynamic. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

 A county prosecutor has thrown a monkey wrench into the functioning of the United States Congress, and that's something that needs to be resolved.

 Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and obviously not having him on the floor threw a monkey wrench into that. We didn't get the job done on defense tonight.
  Jon Carroll

 [Abbey lives! Sierra Club Books recently reissued] The Best of Edward Abbey, ... The Monkey Wrench Gang.
  Edward Abbey

 Earnings season is always volatile and we're just going to have to watch it. What companies say can throw a monkey wrench into market action or be a catalyst, and we have a lot of big companies reporting in the next few days.

 It wasn't that complicated five days ago. But we knew it was going to get a little entertaining here. We were hoping we could get through spring without injuries, but they are going to happen. It just throws a little wrench in there.

 The market had gotten itself into a position where the thought process was the economy was cooling off a bit and the Fed was close to being done raising interest rates. These numbers threw a wrench into the works.

 If the monkey feels comfortable, the monkey will hump him; if he doesn't feel comfortable, the monkey will kill him,

 In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice
  Mark Twain

 The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
  Malcolm de Chazal


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