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View synonyms for muddy the waters
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.Advertisement
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