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gum up the works Related vocabulary: gum up somethingto prevent a machine or system from operating correctly. In bad weather, twice as many people use their cars on the road, which really gums up the works. gum up the works to prevent a machine or system from operating correctly. The project was going really well until that software upgrade gummed up the works. |
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Kim said he dreads the new employee who can gum up the works. All it took was a single errant driver - in this case, Gavin Charles Kleintop, who allegedly was driving drunk - to gum up the works for tens of thousands of commuters. An independent auditor would just gum up the works, asking too many questions, giving the fine print too fine a reading and maybe pointing out that we've heard these promises before and asking: Isn't it odd that the developers want to improve housing for the homeless by building a new football stadium? |
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