garden path

English

Noun

garden path (plural garden paths)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see garden,‎ path.
2. Ellipsis of garden path sentence.

Related terms

• lead someone down the garden path
• lead someone up the garden path
• take someone down the garden path
• garden pathy, garden-pathy

Translations

path in a garden

Danish: havegang c, havesti c Italian: vialetto (it) m Norwegian: Bokmål: hagegang m Nynorsk: hagegang m Polish: ścieżka ogrodowa f Ukrainian: садо́ва дорі́жка f (sadóva dorížka)

Verb

garden path (third-person singular simple present garden paths, present participle garden pathing, simple past and past participle garden pathed)

1. Alternative form of garden-path.

Further reading

• garden path sentence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia