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put a monkey wrench in the works of
vs
restrain
put a monkey wrench in the works of
restrain
verb
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To strain again.
To restrict or limit.
How often have the words
put a monkey wrench in the works of
and
restrain
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)