«PUT A SPOKE IN SOMEONE'S WHEEL» தொடர்புடைய ஆங்கிலம் புத்தகங்கள்
பின்வரும் புத்தக விவரத்தொகுப்புத் தேர்ந்தெடுப்பில்
put a spoke in someone's wheel இன் பயன்பாட்டைக் கண்டறியுங்கள்.
put a spoke in someone's wheel தொடர்பான புத்தகங்கள் மற்றும் ஆங்கிலம் இலக்கியத்தில் அதன் பயன்பாட்டுச் சூழலை வழங்குவதற்கு அதிலிருந்து பெறப்பட்ட சுருக்கமான சாரங்களைத் தொடர்புபடுத்துகின்றன.
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
(p. 152) Kennedy, John P. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendancy,
2nd ed. 1852. New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1872. To put a spoke in
someone's wheel (APP 347; ODEP 767; EAP 410; MP 588) 1900 He had almost
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George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
2005
&m W±f •) on oiled wheels W, OILED to break on the wheel bl BREAK to oil the
wheels 1, OIL to put a spoke in someone's wheel W. SPOKE to put/ set one's
shoulder to the wheel M SHOULDER to reinvent the wheel M, REINVENT to set
the ...
what price (something)? see price. what's the odds? see odd. what with (inf)
because of: What with having no exercise and being overweight, he had a heart
attack. wheel oil the wheels see oil. put a spoke in (someone's) wheel see spoke.
put ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
what price (something)? see price. what's the odds? see odd. what with (inf)
because of: What with having no exercise and being overweight, he had a heart
attack. wheel oil the wheels see oil. put a spoke in (someone's) wheel see spoke.
put ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz,
1993
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... cart etc. put a spoke in someone's wheel to put difficulties in the way of what
someone is doing: It \ time someone put a spoke in his wheel - he always seems
to get what he wants. spoke2, spoken see speak. spokesman ['spouksman] - fem
...
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A Dictionary of Cliches
(O.E.D.) put a spoke in someone's wheel, to . To circumvent, thwart, or hinder him
(or it): C. 17–18, but not a cliché before C. 19. 'Capitalists...were trying to put a
spoke in the wheel of Socialism', The Manchester Examiner, 1885 (O.E.D.).
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... see COG. grease the wheels: see GREASE. reinvent the wheel: see
REINVENT. put your shoulder to the wheel: see SHOULDER. put a spoke in
someone's wheel: see SPOKE. set the wheels in motion: see SET. silly as a
wheel very silly.
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The Nelson Contemporary English Dictionary
... control of a vehicle 2 in command (of an enterprisel put a spoke in someone's
wheel to frustrate someone's intentions wheels within wheels a complicated
series of motives and influences wheelbarrow iweel'ba rol n a container with a
single ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
put a spoke in someone's wheel to upset their plans, spoken / 'spookan/ >adj\
uttered or expressed in speech. 2 in compounds speaking in a specified way •
well-spoken. > v, past participle o/SPEAK. ♢ be spoken for 1 to be reserved or
taken.
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Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
... les roues à quelqu'un: To 'put a spoke in someone's wheel', to hamper
someone's progress. 6 Pousser a la roue (fig.): To give (someone) a push in the
right direction. 7 Faire la roue: To 'strut about', to show off (like the peacock
whence the ...
E A Lovatt Esq, R J H, R. J. H 'erail,
2005