Hit a Snag

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🗓️ Idiom: Hit a Snag

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💬 Meaning

• To face an unexpected problem or delay.
• It means something is stopping or slowing progress temporarily.

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🧠 Example Sentences

• The shipment hit a snag when customs held it for inspection.
• We hit a snag in the delivery process due to a system error.
• Everything was going well until we hit a snag with the transport permits.

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🏛️ Origin

Originally, a “snag” referred to a tree stump or hidden obstacle in a river that could stop a boat. Over time, the idiom came to mean any unexpected problem or delay in progress, including in business or logistics.

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📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:

The supply chain project __________ when one of the main suppliers went out of business.

Answer

hit a snag

2. Choose the correct meaning of “hit a snag”:

A) To finish early
B) To face an unexpected problem
C) To change direction
D) To save money

Answer

B) To face an unexpected problem

3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:

“We had an unexpected delay in the middle of the delivery process.” → Change the sentence using: hit a snag

Answer

We hit a snag in the middle of the delivery process.

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