Monkeying
around
with wrenches
and such-not
(A selection of monkey-shiners from David Tuggy’s blooper collection)
- You’re like
a bull
monkey in a Chinese
closet.
- He’s got to
get
the monkey off his
wrench.
- I am glad to get
that monkey out of my
back.
- I hate to throw a
monkey in the wrench,
but ...
- [That is just] a
monkey wrench
to gum up the works.
- He looked just
like an organ-pipe monkey.
- Otomonkeyan
(Otomanguean) languages
- That kind of
throws a kink in the monkey
wrench.
- [that will really]
throw a monkey a
wrench.
- That threw another monkey wrench in the
fire.
- I don’t
mean to throw a monkey wrench on
your parade.
- That threw a
wrench into the monkey
works, … uh, … threw the monkey into the wrench
works.
- I felt the need to
put a wrench in the monkey
works so
to speak.
- OK, now
let’s
throw politics into the
monkey wrench.
- That would
put a monkey in the wench.
- [That will] throw
some
monkeys into the wrench.
Relatedly (via the British version of a monkey wrench:)
- Some one is going to throw a spammer in the works at some stage,
- Sorry to throw a spaniel in the works people.
- That could throw a Spaniard in the works.
The above three entries were culled from the Eggcorn Forum. The last of them may well be a repetition of a joke rather than an independent blooper—it is the title of a book by John Lennon.
