"Put a crimp in" nghĩa là gì?

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"Put a crimp in" -> nghĩa là ngăn cản, cản trở; 'thọc gậy bánh xe'.

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Modern drug dealers move around a lot, say the police who spend their days trying to put a crimp in Indianapolis' underground drug market.

But it’s the NRA’s call for “limitations” that Watkins fears could put a crimp in business. “I’d have to understand what that looks like,” says Watkins, who estimates 85 to 90 mobile billboards cruise the Strip on a regular basis. “But I get it. I’m not interested in clogging up the roads.”

Fitzgerald, who lives with his family in Deerfield, is a fitness trainer and competitive cyclist; he also coaches tennis at Frontier Regional High School and soccer at the Northfield Mount Hermon School. Up until about five years ago, he said, he was a meat-eater himself. But then he developed anaplasmosis (bệnh nhiễm anaplasma), a condition similar to Lyme disease (both are produced by tick bites) that causes comparable symptoms — fatigue (sự mệt mỏi), muscle aches, fever and headaches — and which put a crimp in his fitness work.

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