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 |