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muddy the waters

verb

Definitions

  1. To make something unclear and difficult to understand.

    • He insisted that the Basque separatist group Eta remained the main line of investigation, and suggested the tape may have been an attempt to muddy the waters.
    • "Some applications will fail. ORR does not need strong-arm tactics from DfT muddying the waters."

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for muddy the waters. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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