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“Lead someone up the garden path”in other languages

Trick someone, often while keeping their hopes up.

  • English
  • Hungarian
  • Polish
  • Russian
English
lead someone up the garden path
Hungarian
Lóvá tesz valakit literally To make a horse of someone
Polish
Robić kogoś w konia literally To make someone into a horse
Russian
Водить за нос Vodit' za nos literally To lead by the nose
Behind the words

Same idea, different pictures

English and Russian take the victim for a walk: up the garden path, or by the nose, водить за нос, usually explained by the tame bears led around fairs by a ring through the nose.

Hungarian and Polish both turn the victim into a horse: lóvá tesz valakit, robić kogoś w konia. Ridden, and none the wiser.

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