{"id":1007,"date":"2024-05-10T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/2024\/05\/10\/what-does-the-following-statement-or-phrase-mean-to-muddy-the-water\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:05:34","slug":"what-does-the-following-statement-or-phrase-mean-to-muddy-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/what-does-the-following-statement-or-phrase-mean-to-muddy-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the following statement or phrase mean? To muddy the water:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning: to make something confusing or less clear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example: &#8220;The questions from the audience helped to muddy the water during the debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The explanation from the government official muddied the water about the new policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer Meaning: to make something confusing or less clear Example: &#8220;The questions from the audience helped to muddy the water during the debate.&#8221; &#8220;The explanation from the government official muddied the water about the new policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/author\/editor\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/category\/daily-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Answer Meaning: to make something confusing or less clear Example: &#8220;The questions from the audience helped to muddy the water during the debate.&#8221; &#8220;The explanation from the government official muddied the water about the new policy.&#8221;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}