twist words

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twist someone's words (around)

to restate someone's words inaccurately; to misrepresent what someone has said. Stop twisting my words around! Listen to what I am telling you! You are twisting my words again. That is not what I said!

See also: twist, word

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He alleged Andrew Gasson, who at the time lived with his family in Rhydypennau Road, was a manipulative teenager who could twist words to get what he wanted. 'Teenage son was a sex abuser' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) And we saw, too, a president who is his own worst enemy, a man with an almost childish faith in his ability to twist words, to redefine the obvious until it is robbed of all sense, a man who cannot even accept straightforwardly, that sex is sex and lies are lies. STARR'S ATTACK DOGS WANT HIS BLOOD EVEN IF AMERICA BLEEDS TOO; NO ... by Bell, Ian / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) He polishes off his advice with: If by trying to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition you have seemed to twist words out of their normal order and have created a pompous-sounding locution, abandon the effort. When I say 'preposition,' what do you think of? by Steiner, Robert / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics			turning point turnip tussle with tweak off twelve good men and true twice twiddle twiddle thumbs twiddle with twilight twilight years twine around twinkle twinkle with twist twist arm twist around twist around little finger twist in the wind twist into twist of fate twist off twist out of twist the knife twist up twist words twixt two two can play at that game Two can play this game Two heads are better than one two hoops and a holler Two is company, three's a crowd two jumps ahead of two of a kind two peas in a pod two shakes of a lamb's tail two sides of the same coin two strikes against Two wrongs do not make a right two's company two-bit two-edged sword two-faced two-fisted two-time two-time loser two-way street type type into type out			Twist Lock Collar Assembly Twist Monitoring System Twist Of Fate twist of rifling Twist of the Wrist twist off twist off twist off twist off twist off twist out twist out of twist round twist the knife twist the knife twist the knife twist the knife twist the knife twist the knife in the wound twist the knife in the wound twist the knife in the wound twist the knife in the wound twist the meaning twist the meaning of twist the sense twist tie twist ties Twist up Twist up twist wood twist words Twist, Oliver Twist-Boat Diradical Intermediate twist-grip twist-grips twist-lock connector Twist-tie twist-yarn cloth twistability twistability twistability twistability twistability twistable twistable twistable twistable twistable Twiste Twiste Twiste Twiste twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted Twisted (Album) Twisted (Album) Twisted Absolute-Amplitude and Differential Phase-Shift Keying Twisted Animation

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