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Idioms and Phrases

Confuse, upset, or bewilder, as in He tied himself into knots when he tried to explain how the engine works . This metaphoric idiom transfers a knotted tangle to mental confusion. [Late 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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