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pipe wrench

NOUN
monkey wrench
Synonyms
WEAK


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I am like Picasso with a putty knife, and Rembrandt with a pipe wrench.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2016

Although he’d occasionally see his father with a pipe wrench, he wondered about the stream of people going into and out of the apartment.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2015

I found it inside a state government office building in Pennsylvania, languishing on a shelf between a gardening trowel and a pipe wrench.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2015

“You can’t just drop your pipe wrench and say ‘O.K., it’s 5 o’clock, I’m going home,’ and they still don’t have water to their house,” he said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2014

I said, waving the pipe wrench in the air.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls


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