A: I have been very busy recently. That’s why I haven’t called.

    B: Now, be honest with me. Don’t lead me down the garden path. Are you seeing someone else?

    Note: This idiom means to “deceive someone.” Unlike boulevards and streets, garden paths are small and winding. They zigzag their ways now into the woods, now round a pond and then up a mountain. Sometimes a path leads to a dead end. Sometimes a path forks into two, or three. A path in a garden is very pleasant, so someone who is brought along it can be deceived without noticing it. Someone being led down (or up) the garden path means metaphorically that this person has been deceived or cheated in some way or other.