Ms. Pelosi urged her caucus to stay unified and not to peel off and begin negotiating with the president on his terms, which could muddle the stark differences between Mr. Trump and them on a critical issue.
" I don't want you to do anything but be civil to him and help to the pudding. You'll give me your advice if I get in a muddle, won't you? " asked Jo, rather hurt.
There are times when you feel suffocated by everyone else's thoughts and feelings that it muddles your own and you can't seem to think for yourself anymore.
The Nautilus slowed down, hovering above the muddled masses on the seafloor, sometimes grazing them as if wanting to come to rest, sometimes rising unpredictably to the surface of the waves.
A piece of mummy cartonnage and a piece of industrial cartonnage had been dissolved together by the owner's staff, he said, and the resulting sheets of papyrus got muddled up.