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muddy the waters
Idioms and Phrases
Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up one irrelevant fact after another, he succeeded in muddying the waters . This metaphoric expression, alluding to making a pond or stream turbid by stirring up mud from the bottom, was first recorded in 1837.Example Sentences
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been known to use administrative warrants to muddy the waters around Fourth Amendment protections.
But mostly, Melania Trump and Pam Bondi are working overtime to muddy the waters over where the Trump administration stands on the issue of sexual violence.
No need to muddy the waters, no need to create alternative facts.
And now, at the eleventh hour, a shadowy group is barging in to muddy the waters even further.
Many presidents in the past half-century have remarked, toward the end of their terms in office, that the country has just “one president at a time,†and that it would muddy the waters—and could even undermine U.S. policy—if an election’s winner started acting as if he were already in power during the two-and-a-half months before Inauguration Day.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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