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101Anita Spanner — Anita Wagner, geboren Anita Spanner, (* 22. Dezember 1960 im Bezirk Fürstenfeld/Oststeiermark) ist eine österreichische Sängerin. Chartplatzierungen Erklärung der Daten Singles Einfach weg AT: 1[1] – 15.5.1984 – 10 Wo …
102Helmut Spanner — (* 5. Februar 1951 in Augsburg) ist ein deutscher Autor von Kinder und Bilderbüchern. Karriere Nach dem Abitur am Musischen Gymnasium Marktoberdorf im Allgäu studierte er an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in München. Hier war er Mitbegründer… …
103adjustable spanner — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms adjustable spanner : singular adjustable spanner plural adjustable spanners British a spanner (= metal tool for making things tighter or looser) with a head that can be moved to work on nuts and bolts of… …
104spider spanner — see ↑spider wrench below. • • • Main Entry: ↑spider spider wrench or spider spanner noun A box spanner having heads of different sizes at the ends of radial arms • • • Main Entry: ↑spider …
105put a spanner in the works — throw/put/a spanner in the works british informal phrase to do something that suddenly stops a process or plan Her criticisms really threw a spanner in the works. Thesaurus: to stop something from continuing or developingsynonym to kill a person… …
106Tree spanner — A tree k spanner (or simply k spanner) of a graph G is a spanning subtree T of G in which the distance between every pair of vertices is at most k times their distance in G …
107put a spanner in the works — To put a spanner in the works (or throw a (monkey) wrench) means to cause problems and prevent something from happening as planned. A new motorway was planned but a group of ecologists managed to put a spanner in the works …
108throw a spanner in the works — If someone or something throws a spanner (or a wrench) in the works,they do something that causes problems and prevents the success of a plan or event. The two companies were keen to sign the agreement before anything happened to throw a… …
109a spanner (or N. Amer. monkey wrench) in the works — a person or thing that prevents the successful implementation of a plan. → spanner …
110put a spanner in the works — put/throw a spanner in the works British & Australian, American to do something that prevents a plan or activity from succeeding. We were hoping to get the project started in June but the funding was withdrawn so that rather threw a spanner in… …
