(informal) to deliberately deceive someone, to mislead someone e.g It seems as if we've been led up the garden path about the position of our hotel - it's miles from the beach! Thesaurus a numbers game, April fool, bad faith, bamboozle , bilk, blackmail ,blag ,blagger ,bluff ,casuistry , catfish, catfishing ,cheat, cheat sb out of sth ,cleaner confidence, trick, cook cook sth up ,deceive ,diddle, dirty, dirty tricks, do 1, do sb out of sth, do the dirty on sb ,double-cross , double-dealing ,dupe ,eye, fall ,fall for sth ,fall for sth hook, line, and sinker , fall into the/sb's trap, fast-talk, feint, fiddle, finesse ,fixing ,flannel, fleece, fool ,fox, funny business, gag, game-fixing ,grift, grifter ,gull ,gyp, have have an eye to/for, the main chance idiom have sb on hoax hocus-pocus honeyfuggle hoodwink hook hustle impersonate jape jiggery-pokery jockey jockey sb into sth lead 1 lead sb a (merry) dance idiom lead sb on, lead sb up the garden path, live b...
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