More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.
You spanner, Rodney! I wanted a Chinese, not an Indian!.
Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.
The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones.
Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more nut to screw in.