leading one down the garden path
phrase
variants also leading one up the garden path
as in stringing along
to cause to believe what is untrue The suspect led the cops down the garden path with a series of misleading phone calls. Synonyms & Similar Words
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- stringing along
- sucking in
- having on
- taking in
- pulling one's leg
- gammoning
- faking out
- pulling the wool over one's eyes
- doing a number on
- catching
- teasing
- buffaloing
- misleading
- deceiving
- hornswoggling
- duping
- juggling
- burning
- hoodwinking
- snowing
- putting on
- deluding
- hoaxing
- tricking
- sticking
- stinging
- gulling
- cozening
- bluffing
- humbugging
- misinforming
- misguiding
- cheating
- having
- bamboozling
- conning
- beguiling
- fooling
- spoofing
- gaffing
- suckering
- snookering
- gypping
- kidding
- flimflamming
- defrauding
- shortchanging
- euchring
- swindling
- fleecing
- mulcting
- skinning
- chiseling
- rooking
- bleeding
- hustling
- diddling
- squeezing
- chiselling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- showing up
- exposing
- revealing
- unmasking
- debunking
- uncovering
- disclosing
- telling
- undeceiving
- unveiling
- divulging
- disillusioning
- uncloaking
- disenchanting
- disabusing
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- brachiated
- brachiater
- brachiates
- brachiatest
- brachiating
- brachiation
- brachiations
- brachiator
- brachiators
- brachidia
- brachidium
- brachini
- brachinuses
- brachinusses
- brachio-
- brachiocephalic artery
- brachiocephalic vein
- Brachioganoidei
- brachiola
- brachiolaria
- brachiolariae
- brachiolarian
- Brachionichthyidae