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What does muddy the waters mean?

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  1. (figuratively) To make something unclear and difficult to understand.
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Obviously, the Republicans read the same polls as Democrats, and will try to muddy the waters on key issues like education and Social Security.
I'm bound to say that I can't see the difference, and suspect he wants to muddy the waters and befuddle the voters.
This is a cheap political trick to try and muddy the waters just before an election.
It's a version of events which Maradona himself denies, but Alberti's quotes, if anything, further served to muddy the waters.
Liberals gravitate toward the gray to muddy the waters, to muddle people's thinking.
The state government has been attempting to muddy the waters by accusing the Commonwealth of dudding Victorians.

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