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
Reflecting on his efforts to decode potato spindle tuber disease, he wryly told the New York Times, “we went up the garden path many times.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023
Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021
As they set off down the garden path, Slughorn’s voice floated after them, “I’ll want a pay rise, Dumbledore!”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
