英语词组lead someone up the garden path是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

Idiom

lead someone up the garden pathlead (someone) up the garden path

British, American & Australian, informal, American, informal to deceive someone.

We were led up the garden path about the cost of the building work - it turned out really expensive.

lead (one) up the garden path

To mislead or deceive one. Don't lead me up the garden path—tell me what is really going on here.

lead someone up the garden path

BRITISH or

lead someone down the garden path

AMERICAN

If someone leads you up the garden path, they deceive you by making you believe something which is not true. He led me up the garden path. He said the relationship with Penny was over but now he seems to be seeing her again. They led me down the garden path and made me believe there would be a job for me.

lead someone up the garden path

give someone misleading clues or signals. informal

The earliest (early 20th-century) examples of this phrase use just garden rather than garden path , which suggests that the original context was of someone enticing a person they wanted to seduce or flirt with out into a garden. A North American variant of the phrase is lead someone down the garden path .

词组	lead someone up the garden path
释义	Idiom lead someone up the garden pathlead (someone) up the garden path British, American & Australian, informal, American, informal to deceive someone. We were led up the garden path about the cost of the building work - it turned out really expensive. lead (one) up the garden path To mislead or deceive one. Don't lead me up the garden path—tell me what is really going on here. lead someone up the garden path BRITISH or lead someone down the garden path AMERICAN If someone leads you up the garden path, they deceive you by making you believe something which is not true. He led me up the garden path. He said the relationship with Penny was over but now he seems to be seeing her again. They led me down the garden path and made me believe there would be a job for me. lead someone up the garden path give someone misleading clues or signals. informal The earliest (early 20th-century) examples of this phrase use just garden rather than garden path , which suggests that the original context was of someone enticing a person they wanted to seduce or flirt with out into a garden. A North American variant of the phrase is lead someone down the garden path .
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