snag
noun/snæɡ/
/snæɡ/
- (informal) a problem or difficulty, especially one that is small, hidden or unexpected synonym difficulty
- There is just one small snag—where is the money coming from?
- Let me know if you run into any snags.
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec2- I suddenly saw a major snag with the whole idea.
- The only snag is the price.
- There are a few snags to iron out before the prototype is ready.
- There is a snag to the job: you have to work at weekends.
- We've hit a technical snag—the printer isn't compatible with my PC.
- The only snag with the course is that it's quite short.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- major
- little
- …
- hit
- run into
- snag in
- snag on
- snag to
- …
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- an object or a part of an object that is rough or sharp and may cut something
- Check all surfaces for snags and rough edges.
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) a sausage
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 late 16th cent. (in sense (2) of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin. The early sense ‘stump sticking out from a tree trunk’ gave rise to a US sense ‘submerged piece of timber obstructing navigation’, of which sense 1 is originally a figurative use. Current verb senses arose in the 19th cent. noun sense 3 1940s: of unknown origin.
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