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词汇 throw-sand-in-the-gears
语种 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译
释义

throw sand in the gears


idiom
to cause problems or prevent something from happening as it should:
I don't want to give them a chance to throw sand in the gears.
He said "When mobile phone companies charge consumers fat penalties to leave, they're throwing sand in the gears of competition."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing difficulties for oneself or others
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be a tall orderidiom
be asking for troubleidiom
be your own worst enemyidiom
bother someone with something
catch
dig
make heavy weather of somethingidiom
make it difficult for someone to do something
obduracy
open a can of worms
overburden
sand
shoot
store up trouble/problemsidiom
subject someone/something to something
sucker punch
swamp
tall
wrong-foot
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