gum up the works

He fears saying anything that might gum up the works.

Gee - do you think that might gum up the works a little?

So they're pretending to go along but really gumming up the works.

"Here we were going fine until you two clowns gummed up the works."

Maryland's signing might be gumming up the works even further this year.

Privately, American officials will say that consultations and consensus sometimes gum up the works.

That complicated things immensely, and it's still gumming up the works right now.

They were trying to gum up the works.

Ironically it doesn't take a lot to gum up the works."

Gumming up the works was just asking for trouble.

"Federal officials seem to go on the philosophy, 'Why keep it simple when you can gum up the works?' "

Too much foam can really gum up the works."

This was an active investigation, and I'd gummed up the works by ignoring protocol.

Paper trails, they say, could just gum up the works with printer jams and other failures.

"This could really gum up the works, though."

"No way you can gum up the works?"

"I hate it when puns gum up the works of my machines.

Not only that, but the pocket lint from jeans starts gumming up the works after a while.

"They proliferate to the point where they gum up the works, even stopping the flow of the water."

Can it, Mike, he works for Justice, it's his job to gum up the works.

Whether they can keep their people there during a Democratic Administration is another story, but they could gum up the works."

Old settings, data and other outdated system information that Windows has but no longer needs can gum up the works and slow things down.

But allowing just one member to free legislation, as the reformers propose, might gum up the works with frivolous bills.

If Brakmaktin hadn't appeared to gum up the works by then, he probably wasn't going to.

But the Communists gummed up the works.