| 词汇 | lead down the garden path |
| 词源 | lead down the garden path. The origin of this common ex- pression remains a mystery. Not recorded in print until 1926, it may be the creation of the novelist Ethel Mannin, in whose book, Sounding Brass, it first appeared, but this seems unlikely. In the book to lead down the garden (path) means “to seduce,” but the expression’s common meaning is “to deceive in any way.” The garden path suggests that the deception is done in a pleasant way, so that the victim suspects nothing. |
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