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Put a crimp in

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in.
  2. 2
    To spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect.

    "This put a crimp in my style, so I was determined we were going to find our own place faster than the timetable we'd set ourselves."

Etymology

By analogy with putting a crimp in a pipe or hose, thereby slowing or stopping the flow of liquid through it.

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