muddy the waters 的定义
- 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.
muddy the waters 近义词
等同于 obscure
muddy the waters 的近义词 48 个
- belie
- blind
- block out
- blur
- camouflage
- cloud
- confuse
- cover
- cover up
- darken
- dim
- disguise
- eclipse
- mask
- misrepresent
- muddy
- overshadow
- shroud
- veil
- adumbrate
- becloud
- bedim
- befog
- blear
- block
- cloak
- con
- equivocate
- falsify
- fog
- gray
- haze
- mist
- murk
- obfuscate
- overcast
- overcloud
- pettifog
- screen
- shade
- shadow
- stonewall
- wrap
- cloud the issue
- double-talk
- fuzz
- gloom
- throw up smoke screen
muddy the waters 的反义词 13 个
等同于 perplex
等同于 disrupt
更多muddy the waters例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- The “waters of Lake Minnetonka” may have been purifying, but they were also freezing.
- The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
- This, however, did not apply to the waters lying directly around the Poloe and Flatland groups.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
- The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.
- All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.