Idiom
tie in knots
Meaning
To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His confusing questions tie me in knots.”
“The complex tax forms always tie me in knots when I try to finish them every April.”
“The lawyer used a series of contradictory statements to tie the witness in knots during the long cross-examination.”
Examples
simple
“His confusing questions tie me in knots.”
contextual
“The complex tax forms always tie me in knots when I try to finish them every April.”
complex
“The lawyer used a series of contradictory statements to tie the witness in knots during the long cross-examination.”
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