lead up the garden path

lead somebody up the garden path

(British, American & Australian informal) also lead somebody down the garden path (American informal)

to deceive someone We were led up the garden path about the cost of the building work - it turned out really expensive.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Branda	BRAN-də	English (Rare)
Zuri	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Rina (3)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Govind	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada
Ioab	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Naoko	nah-o-ko	Japanese