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单词 muddy the waters
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muddy the waters

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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.

Words nearby muddy the waters

muddlehead, muddleheaded, muddler, muddle through, muddy, muddy the waters, mud eel, Mudéjar, mudeye, mudfat, mud fever
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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