Synonyms of leading one down the garden path

leading one down the garden path

phrase

variants also leading one up the garden path

present participle of lead one down the garden path

as in stringing along

to cause to believe what is untrue

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stringing along
• sucking in
• doing a number on
• having on
• faking out
• taking in
• gammoning
• catching
• buffaloing
• teasing
• pulling one's leg
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• hornswoggling
• misleading
• deceiving
• juggling
• duping
• burning
• hoodwinking
• snowing
• deluding
• stinging
• tricking
• hoaxing
• sticking
• gulling
• bluffing
• cozening
• misinforming
• humbugging
• misguiding
• snookering
• cheating
• putting on
• fooling
• conning
• bamboozling
• spoofing
• having
• beguiling
• gaffing
• suckering
• kidding
• gypping
• flimflamming
• defrauding
• shortchanging
• swindling
• chiselling
• fleecing
• euchring
• mulcting
• chiseling
• rooking
• skinning
• bleeding
• hustling
• diddling
• squeezing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• debunking
• disclosing
• telling
• undeceiving
• unveiling
• divulging
• disillusioning
• uncloaking
• disenchanting
• disabusing