muddy the waters

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• Chinese Mandarin: 攪渾水 /搅浑水 (jiǎo húnshuǐ) — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Finnish: sotkea asiaa — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Finnish: hämmentää — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• French: noyer le poisson — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• French: brouiller les pistes — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Greek: θολώνω τα νερά (tholóno ta nerá) — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Italian: intorbidare le acque — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Italian: confondere le acque — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Polish: zaciemniać obraz — To make something unclear and difficult to understand
• Russian: мути́ть во́ду (mutítʹ vódu) — To make something unclear and difficult to understand