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put a spoke in someone's wheel
idiom informal
to make it difficult for someone to achieve something they had planned to do: 破坏（某人的）计划；阻挠（某人的）行动
His letter really put a spoke in our wheel.他的信确实破坏了我们的计划。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Discouraging and putting off
aversive
dampen someone's enthusiasm
dampen someone's spirits
dampener on something
daunt
deter
deterrence
deterrent
discourage
discouragement
dishearten
disheartening
dishearteningly
disincentive
emasculate
emasculation
spoke
take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom
throw cold water on somethingidiom
unencouraging
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