tie in knots | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toput(someone) in adifficultsituation.2021March 14, Ed Pilkington, “A year of living dangerously: how Andrew Cuomo fell from grace”, inThe Observer‎[1]:That is where[Andrew]Cuomo’s unravelling began, with the revelation – admitted in part by his top aide,Melissa DeRosa, to state lawmakers – that the administration suppressed the number of nursing home deaths by several thousand in order to avoid a federal inquiry. DeRosa claimed the move was made to avoid Donald Trumptyingthemup in knots, but it sounded suspiciously like a cover-up.; (transitive,idiomatic)Tomake(someone)upsetoranxious.

Examples:

EN: This girl...she...she makes my stomachs tie in knots.
HI: लड़की - अहह अहह मेरे. . . . . मेरे स्तनों को चुसो !

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