Noun : He threw a monkey wrench into our plans.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.    From Dictionary.com. 

He would drop the grease-can or the monkey-wrench to rush to her side.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

“Hmm…if I would throw a monkey-wrench in just the right place…”.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - High rez transformers pics] Reference

With a monkey-wrench he removed the two big wheels of the lawn-mower and reversed the pawl in the cogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

It's just that it can have an insidious way of throwing a monkey-wrench in my initial plans for a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research, Schmesearch] Reference

Now a hatchet, monkey-wrench, monkey's-tail, or gliding fish or wriggling eel, companions of his imprisonment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

The drug re-importation issue seems to be growing out of the pliers stage and into the monkey-wrench category.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sen. Ben Nelson: I will not vote to end the filibuster - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState] Reference

This accident really put a monkey-wrench in things, but there's nothing to do but go on and do the best I can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

If this is true, a large monkey-wrench would be thrown into her plans, were John Kerry to be elected this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2004] Reference

An Irishman having some dispute with a native, the latter seized a monkey-wrench that was near, and killed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

But Gilman suddenly threw a monkey-wrench into the works - and gained a slot for himself in this year's top ten greediest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much: Top Ten Greediest Americans] Reference

But GWB put a monkey-wrench in my plans by letting the economy get SO bad that the stationery store here went out of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad money karma: The falling dollar & its effect on a former South African bantustan village -- and me!] Reference

Even if this is only 2-3% of the voting, it serves their purpose to monkey-wrench the Democratic nomination process as it stands now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exit Polls: More Hillary Voters Would Desert Obama And Back McCain] Reference

Arrangements must be made so that if a monkey-wrench drops out of a plane a mile or two up in the air proper damages can be collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference

Worse, it's going to throw a huge monkey-wrench into the the whole NEC schedule right at a time of crush loads of people heading to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama To Take Big Pre-Inauguration Railroad Tour] Reference

The Nevada caucuses are a week away, and the state teachers 'union has decided to throw a monkey-wrench into the legalities of the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevada Teachers' Union Sues To Stop Workers Caucusing On Las Vegas Strip] Reference

I got hold of a monkey-wrench and knocked him cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Pilots in the Air] Reference

Bring along a monkey-wrench or the first thing to hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective] Reference

Such a development would also throw a monkey-wrench into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hook News Blog] Reference

How could tiny Tuvalu monkey-wrench global climate talks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breakthrough Institute] Reference

I think that's going to throw a whole monkey-wrench in there.    From Wordnik.com.  [PaddockTalk Racing News]

David threw down the monkey-wrench, and put an arm about her waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

"Where are the screw-driver, and the monkey-wrench, and an oil-can?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way] Reference

The whole idea was that they would monkey-wrench the thing for McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadly, No!] Reference

He went below with a monkey-wrench, unscrewed the nut, and let the hook drop off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Fish Patrol] Reference

"She makes too much steam-you want to hang the monkey-wrench on the safety-valve!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches New and Old] Reference

So the second day after my baby grand's arrival I went at it with a monkey-wrench.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Wife] Reference

Close by it lay a small monkey-wrench with which some one had battered the padlock.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Diablo] Reference

"She makes too much steam -- you want to hang the monkey-wrench on the safety-valve!".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Watch : An Instructive Little Tale] Reference

With him he carried the monkey-wrench and short iron bar and a few spare feet of rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Courage and Other Stories] Reference

It's part of the Devil's corruption, trying to throw a monkey-wrench in God's machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Truslow if be had the only monkey-wrench in the world and I was carbonized on a country road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motormaniacs] Reference

For fear that he might drop the monkey-wrench he made it fast to his wrist with his handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Courage and Other Stories] Reference

This was rather like chucking a monkey-wrench into the cerebration machinery of the Paris experts.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stands Accused] Reference

The Fed threw a little monkey-wrench into the works Thursday with a surprise rate move but the market was amazingly unphased.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Then he searched in the bottom of the wagon until he found a monkey-wrench which he applied to the nut and twirled dextrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

"I think that's a crazy-looking monkey-wrench you've got there," observed Annixter, glancing at the instrument in Hooven's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference

She wasn't a hard ship, for the old man was better than most of them, though he kept to himself and had a face like a monkey-wrench.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Overboard!] Reference

That got him a seat on a White House council despite his opposition to abortion -- which he's using monkey-wrench health-care reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference