hit a snag

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Verb

hit a snag (third-person singular simple present hits a snag, present participle hitting a snag, simple past and past participle hit a snag)

(idiomatic) To encounter an unexpected problem or delay.
Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day.
- 2020 September 24, Cynthia Greenlee, “Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them.”, in The New York Times‎:
  Ms. Harris opted for buying hair and getting a beautician to make it into a two “forever wigs,” right for her face and head measurements. Even so, she hit several snags. When her wigs arrived, one was just too full.

Translations

to encounter an unexpected problem or delay

Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: op een moeilijkheid stuiten
Finnish: törmätä ongelmaan, kohdata ongelma, kohdata vastoinkäyminen
French: tomber sur un os (fr)
German: hängenbleiben (de), auf Schwierigkeiten stoßen
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: nehézségbe ütközik
Spanish: encontrar un problema inesperado
Swedish: stöta på patrull (sv), stöta på problem

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