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词组 put a spoke in someone's wheel
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put a spoke in someone's wheel prevent someone from carrying out a plan. British

☞ It is not clear why a spoke, a normal component of many wheels, should have such a negative effect. It has been suggested that spoke here is a mistranslation of the Dutch word spaak, meaning 'a bar' or 'a stave', which is found in the identical Dutch idiom.

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