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Meanings of twisting things in English

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Usage of twisting things in English
1
You've got a devil of a way of twisting things into parables.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
2
Doing what you always do, changing and twisting things around to suit you.
"Undo": A Novel
3
Whenever they got to twisting things too much and doing what wasn't just honest, I suppose he'd kick out.
Twelve Men
4
You're always twisting things around. But even as he shook his head, he saw their faces, not in death, but in life.
The Child Thief
5
I loved that boy as though he were my own-stilldo, but Otto had a way of twisting things about to suit his own needs.
Shadow of an angel
6
But that kind o' twisting things to make slave property free never amounts to much, especially when a man gets where they say Marston is!
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
7
"What a very unpleasant way you always have of twisting things!"
Hetty Gray / Nobody's Bairn
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