muddy up

1. To cover, fill, or contaminate something with mud. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." I just got the Jeep washed, and then Tom took it off-roading in the mountains and muddied it up again! Take your boots off so you don't muddy up my carpets! They all went into the wading pool and muddied up the water.

2. To dredge up the mud at the bottom of a lake, pond, river, etc. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." The lake is so perfectly tranquil and still—don't ruin that by traipsing in and muddying it up! We could have found your ring in this pond if you hadn't muddied the water up before we started looking!

3. To render something awkward, confusing, and disorderly; to obscure or obfuscate something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up"; often used in passive constructions. The introduction of new tariffs is likely to further muddy up the already complicated relationship between the two countries. They muddied the contract up with all sorts of misleading, cryptic language. Our roles within the team have become so muddied up that we've largely given up the idea of job titles.

muddy something up

Lit.

1. to make water muddy; to stir up the mud in water, as at the bottom of a pond or river. Don't muddy the water up. It will clog our filters. Don't muddy up the water.

2. Fig. to make something unclear. You have really muddied this issue up. I thought I understood it. You sure muddied up this issue.

词组	muddy up
释义	muddy up muddy up 1. To cover, fill, or contaminate something with mud. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." I just got the Jeep washed, and then Tom took it off-roading in the mountains and muddied it up again! Take your boots off so you don't muddy up my carpets! They all went into the wading pool and muddied up the water. 2. To dredge up the mud at the bottom of a lake, pond, river, etc. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." The lake is so perfectly tranquil and still—don't ruin that by traipsing in and muddying it up! We could have found your ring in this pond if you hadn't muddied the water up before we started looking! 3. To render something awkward, confusing, and disorderly; to obscure or obfuscate something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up"; often used in passive constructions. The introduction of new tariffs is likely to further muddy up the already complicated relationship between the two countries. They muddied the contract up with all sorts of misleading, cryptic language. Our roles within the team have become so muddied up that we've largely given up the idea of job titles. See also: muddy, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. muddy something up Lit. 1. to make water muddy; to stir up the mud in water, as at the bottom of a pond or river. Don't muddy the water up. It will clog our filters. Don't muddy up the water. 2. Fig. to make something unclear. You have really muddied this issue up. I thought I understood it. You sure muddied up this issue. See also: muddy, up McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: involve with involve with (someone or something) involved with arrange for arrange for some time arrange some music for back into back into (someone or something) add in attune to
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