Bruce Rauner

We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.

American Businessman

Hank Aaron

Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated.

American Baseball Player

Robin Day

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

British Journalist

George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Irish Playwright

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

American Philosopher

John Madden

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

American Entertainer

Denzel Washington

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

American Actor

Dwayne Johnson

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Orson Welles

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Statesman

Think of rainy days, gardening, or walking through puddles - situations where mud is commonly found.

Outdoor imagery

Mud often has a negative connotation, implying messiness or trouble.

Negatively viewed

Items stained with mud need to be cleaned gently to avoid damage.

Clean with care

When talking about politics, 'mud' refers to insults or accusations, not physical dirt.

Figurative use

In idiomatic use, 'mud' suggests dirty tactics and dishonesty.

Negative connotations

Using 'mud' in the idiomatic sense is casual and may be inappropriate in formal contexts.

Informal expression

Using 'mud' as a verb often implies creating a mess or ruining cleanliness accidentally.

Action consequence

Mudding is typically an active, intentional process, whether for fun or by accident.

Active involvement

In computer games, 'MUD' stands for 'Multi-User Dungeon', a type of multiplayer game.

Gaming jargon

MUDs are often text-driven, requiring players to read and type commands.

Text-based adventure

 so like mud baking in the sun, your cookie gets dried out and it stiffens. Cracks spread across its surface. The steam that was bubbling inside evaporates, leaving behind airy pockets that make the cookie light and flaky. Helping this along is your leavening agent, sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda.

The chemistry of cookies...

 Alright, now -- please raise your hand if the reason you raised your hand to go to the bottom of the ocean is because it would get you a little bit closer to that exciting mud that's down there. Nobody. I'm the only one in this room. Well, I think about this all the time.

This deep-sea mystery is...

 they told me that I was meant for the cleaner life that you would drag me through the mud they said that you would shred all over me that they could see right through you that you were full of hot air then I

Poetic performance and...

 these birds mate for life and the male reaffirms the bond by displaying to the female they're building a mud nest on the underside of the boulders overhang where it'll be protected from the rain

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 Even the river, normally a lifeline for the animals, has almost disappeared. Yet the mud soup that remains could be concealing a free lunch if only the leopards can figure out what it is

Leopard Learns How to...

 even the river normally a lifeline for the animals has almost disappeared yet the mud soup that remains could be concealing a free lunch if only the leopards can figure out what

ONE HOUR of Amazing...

 And there, where the water is deepest, they dive down and push each branch firmly into the mud at the bottom. This is the beavers' fridge, where the vegetation will keep fresh

Beaver Lodge Construction...

 devil as the lizard most in need of a spa treatment we mean the whole program sea salt scrub mud baths kelp wrap hydrotherapy and the world's longest deepest facial I

Thorny Devil PIPE National...

 These birds mate for life and the male reaffirms the bond by displaying to the female. They're building a mud nest on the underside of the boulder's overhang,

These Ancient Birds Have...

 a mud skipper a fish that spends most of its life