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garden path

[gahr-dn-path, -pahth] / ˈgɑr dnˌpæθ, -ˌpɑθ /


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The photograph, taken in April during their state visit to Italy, shows the smiling couple standing side by side on a garden path.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 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

Fist clenched against a surge of shame and disappointment, she left along the garden path.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2021

Chalking roads for my Corgi cars down his garden path.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell


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