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take someone down the garden path

take someone down the garden path verb: synonym of lead someone up the garden path.

Verb

take someone down the garden path (third-person singular simple present takes someone down the garden path, present participle taking someone down the garden path, simple past took someone down the garden path, past participle taken someone down the garden path)

  1. Synonym of lead someone up the garden path.

Synonyms of take someone down the garden path

Forms of take someone down the garden path

third-person singular presenttakes someone down the garden path
present participletaking someone down the garden path
pasttook someone down the garden path
past participletaken someone down the garden path

Questions about take someone down the garden path

What does take someone down the garden path mean?
Take someone down the garden path means synonym of lead someone up the garden path.
What part of speech is take someone down the garden path?
Take someone down the garden path is a verb.
What is the past tense of take someone down the garden path?
The past tense of take someone down the garden path is took someone down the garden path.

Words near take someone down the garden path in the dictionary

  1. take soil
  2. take some air
  3. take some beating
  4. take some doing
  5. take someone at their word
  6. take someone down the garden path
  7. take someone for all they've got
  8. take someone out back
  9. take someone to brown town
  10. take someone to the grave
  11. take someone up short

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