Words similar to spanner

Example sentences for: spanner

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The arrival of a pre-adolescent girl, inteligible to share a boy's room, threw a spanner into the works (and probably confirmed beliefs in English eccentricity).
For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.