left-handed monkey wrench
left-handed monkey wrench
A fictional tool, typically used to trick someone who is new to a field or industry. If you want to mess with the new kid, ask him to go get you a left-handed monkey wrench, then watch him scour the truck for the next hour looking for one.
See also: monkey, wrench
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
left-handed monkey wrench
n. a nonexistent tool. (see also sky hook.) Hand me the left-handed monkey wrench, huh?
See also: monkey, wrench
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- a new kid on the block
- a/the new kid on the block
- new kid on the block
- absorb (someone or something) in(to) (something)
- in (the) light of (something)
- in light of
- in the light of something
- a go (at someone or something)
- bear (someone or something) in mind
- bear something in mind