英语词汇“lead someone up (or down) the garden path”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lead someone up (or down) the garden path

informal Give someone misleading clues or signals: in a crime novel, the reader has to be led up the garden path...

He said the people of Achill had been led up the garden path on the scheme.
And if I've led you up the garden path just to give you a silly acronym by which to remember something simple and obvious, I'm sorry.
No doubt there were angry phone calls last week from those writers who may have felt the company had led them up the garden path with its hints and spin.

Synonyms

deceive, mislead, lead on, delude, hoodwink, dupe, trick, ensnare, entrap, tempt, entice, allure, lure, beguile, tantalize, tease, frustrate, flirt with, inveigle, seduce, take in, fool, pull the wool over someone's eyes, gull

informal string along, take for a ride, put one over on

See parent entry: lead

单词	lead someone up (or down) the garden path
释义	lead someone up (or down) the garden path informal Give someone misleading clues or signals: in a crime novel, the reader has to be led up the garden path... He said the people of Achill had been led up the garden path on the scheme. And if I've led you up the garden path just to give you a silly acronym by which to remember something simple and obvious, I'm sorry. No doubt there were angry phone calls last week from those writers who may have felt the company had led them up the garden path with its hints and spin. Synonyms deceive, mislead, lead on, delude, hoodwink, dupe, trick, ensnare, entrap, tempt, entice, allure, lure, beguile, tantalize, tease, frustrate, flirt with, inveigle, seduce, take in, fool, pull the wool over someone's eyes, gull informal string along, take for a ride, put one over on See parent entry: lead
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