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garden path

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


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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

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

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

The gazebo, skeleton-like, looms at the end of the garden path.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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