watchmaker
Mark Twain, My Watch:
While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance -- a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good engineer, either. He examined all the parts carefully, just as the other watch-makers had done, and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner.
He said:
She makes too much steam -- you want to hang the monkey-wrench on the safety-valve!
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