"put a spoke in someone's wheel" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "puts a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "putting a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 December, T. B. Sands, “Some Railway Byways in the Vale of Glamorgan”, in Railway Magazine, page 838",
          "text": "The original branch was 5¾ miles long, from Llantrisant to Cowbridge only, but in 1889, the T.V.R. [Taff Vale Railway] obtained powers […] to continue the line for 6½ miles south to the coast at Aberthaw, ostensibly for the purpose of serving the important limestone works there, but one suspects other motives, including an understandable desire on the part of the T.V.R. to put a spoke in the wheel of the oncoming Barry Railway !",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_a_spoke_in_someone's_wheel-en-verb-yLNm4o7u",
      "links": [
        [
          "thwart",
          "thwart"
        ],
        [
          "obstruct",
          "obstruct"
        ],
        [
          "execution",
          "execution"
        ],
        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "throw a spanner in the works"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw a wrench in the works"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fix someone's flint"
        },
        {
          "word": "settle someone's hash"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "word": "házet klacky pod nohy"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "word": "sætte en kæp i hjulet"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "word": "stokken in de wielen steken"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "word": "einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "word": "thọc gậy bánh xe"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "word": "torri ar chwarae rhywun"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a spoke in someone's wheel"
}

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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a spoke in someone's wheel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "throw a spanner in the works"
    },
    {
      "word": "throw a wrench in the works"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 December, T. B. Sands, “Some Railway Byways in the Vale of Glamorgan”, in Railway Magazine, page 838",
          "text": "The original branch was 5¾ miles long, from Llantrisant to Cowbridge only, but in 1889, the T.V.R. [Taff Vale Railway] obtained powers […] to continue the line for 6½ miles south to the coast at Aberthaw, ostensibly for the purpose of serving the important limestone works there, but one suspects other motives, including an understandable desire on the part of the T.V.R. to put a spoke in the wheel of the oncoming Barry Railway !",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thwart",
          "thwart"
        ],
        [
          "obstruct",
          "obstruct"
        ],
        [
          "execution",
          "execution"
        ],
        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fix someone's flint"
        },
        {
          "word": "settle someone's hash"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "word": "házet klacky pod nohy"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "word": "sætte en kæp i hjulet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "word": "stokken in de wielen steken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "word": "einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "word": "thọc gậy bánh xe"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "word": "torri ar chwarae rhywun"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a spoke in someone's wheel"
}

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