slept like a bag of spanners

Slang for having a crap nights sleep

Bloke: 'I slept like a bag of spanners last night'

Bird: ' How does a bag of spanners sleep like?'

Bloke: 'Lumpy!'

Bloke: 'I slept like a bag of spanners last night'

Bird: ' How does a bag of spanners sleep like?'

Bloke: 'Lumpy!'

spanner fairy

Alistair Macleod

Alistair Macleod is a spanner fairy.

Spanner fairy's wind people up.

Spanner job

UK: Used to describe the fifty pence piece due to its seven sided design and its resembelence to a nut*.

*As in nut and bolt.

Customer: Barman! can I have change for the cig machine.
Barman: How much do y' need?
Customer: A couple of spanner jobs should sort it, ta!

Spanner and screwdriver

Spanner - cocaine and MDMA. 2. An idiot/spencer. 3. A problem i.e. to throw a spanner in the clockwork.
Screwdriver - orange juice and vodka. 2. A knife with a chipped off tip. 3. A twisting punch that does internal dammage.

Im totally spanskrew man, too many spanner's to many screwdriver's.

Get a spanner and screwdriver down your neck man.

chinese spanner

A mechanics nickname for a hammer

Oi mate can ya chuck me the Chinese spanner this bolts stuck

dockyard spanner

A hammer. Suggests that workers in the dockyard are heavy handed and use brute force and wrong tools to achieve desired outcome, regardless of collateral damage caused.

"Pass me that dockyard spanner, would you, old fruit? I need to jolly well tap this nail in."