garden path
Example Sentences
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He's leading us all down a garden path and deep down, I reckon he knows it too.
From BBC • May 29, 2025
I love being hoodwinked, led up the garden path, dazzled by red herrings and then awed into submission by an ingenious finale.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
He paid a company to erect a raised, square, demountable studio at the end of a garden path.
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021
Socrates first leads Gorgias up the garden path, enticing him to agree that “rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
