But last week, defence lawyer Bill Taylor QC put a spanner in the works.
If true, that is a spanner in the works for those designing quantum gravity.
But now members of the European Parliament have thrown a spanner in the works.
The unseen spanner in the works is the idea of main road priority.
However two British MEPs, Liberal Democrat Diana Wallis and Conservative Nirj Deva attempted to throw a spanner in the works by forcing an election.
It should be punch and counterpunch between the leading duo until the final bell sounds in Brazil, with the weather set to throw a spanner in the works too.
The strengthening in the yen throws a spanner in the works for the Japanese government, which has been trying to weaken the currency in hopes of reviving the battered, relatively export-oriented economy.
At the time, American vintners believed that the ruling would help them all expand their business exponentially (a flurry of follow-up lawsuits and lobbying by wholesalers has thrown a spanner in the works).
The meeting between the hosts and the Irish will conclude the opening round of matches, with head coach Phillip Doyle's team keen to put a spanner in the English works.
Arguably the biggest economic spanner in the government's works has been far less growth in the economy than it hoped for.
Moussaoui, however, has thrown a spanner into the works by leaping up in court, declaring his guilt and his membership in al-Qaeda.
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