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led one down the garden path

phrase , past tense of lead one down the garden path

variants: also led one up the garden path

Synonyms and Antonyms of led one down the garden path

to cause to believe what is untrue

The suspect led the cops down the garden path with a series of misleading phone calls.

Synonyms of led one down the garden path

bamboozled, beguiled, bluffed, buffaloed, burned (or burnt), caught, conned, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, faked out, fooled, gaffed, gammoned, gulled, had, had on [chiefly British], hoaxed, hoodwinked, hornswoggled, humbugged, juggled, misguided, misinformed, misled, snookered, snowed, spoofed, strung along, sucked in, suckered, took in, tricked

Words Related to led one down the garden path

kidded, put on, teased

bled, cheated, chiseled (or chiselled), defrauded, diddled, euchred, fleeced, flimflammed, gypped, hustled, mulcted, rooked, shortchanged, skinned, squeezed, stuck, stung, swindled

Phrases Synonymous with led one down the garden path

did a number on, pulled one's leg, pulled the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of led one down the garden path

debunked, exposed, revealed, showed up, uncloaked, uncovered, unmasked

disclosed, divulged, told, unveiled

disabused, disenchanted, disillusioned

Antonyms of led one down the garden path

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