Put a crimp in plan, put a crimp on things, etc.

"To put crimp in/on" is defined as an idiomatic expression that means "to spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect." in most dictionaries I've checked.

However I still have some doubts that it means exactly the same in different situations. I surmise that if we use it with word "plan", it means to spoil plan at all, while if use it with word "things" or "friendship" etc it means just for example to make that things difficult to do, or spoil something partly in them, however the things are supposed to be workable upon the whole. The same "rule" must be workable with regards to "friendship" and practically any other word which is different to word "plan".

I guess, if we say that someone has put crimp in someone's plan it obviously means that the things have been done in such a way that plan can't be implemented at all. Perhaps it is so because when we are speaking about "plan" we bear in mind that that can either work or not, without thinking of it as of half-workable. A plan doesn't make sense if it is half-workable. Consequently, that crimp put in it must spoil it completely. Yet, my surmise can be wrong, and that as well means that plan just was spoiled partly. I would thus be interested to hear opinion of a native-speaker. How do you take such phares?

The storm put a crimp in our travel plans. (here obviously, the plans are spoiled completely, because no one will travel during the strom in the sea or wherever)

I'm sorry to put a crimp in your plans.

This put crimps in their plans.

She puts a crimp in our friendship.

(But here in these three sentences I'm somehow not certain.)