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muddy the waters



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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.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been known to use administrative warrants to muddy the waters around Fourth Amendment protections.

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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.

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No need to muddy the waters, no need to create alternative facts.

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And now, at the eleventh hour, a shadowy group is barging in to muddy the waters even further.

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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

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