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put a crimp in

verb

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in.

  2. To spoil

    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.
    • Everyone had expected the economic recession to put a crimp in Davis's ambitions.
    • Would marriage somehow put a crimp in your image as a beautiful, successful and single newscaster?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA