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What does it mean to “lead someone down the garden path”?

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What does it mean to “lead someone down the garden path”?

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I think it is a reference to enticing someone into the shrubbery for some hanky-panky, hence symbolically, if you are led down the garden path, you are being misguided by promises of something that will not be given.

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