garden-path
园路,花园路,园游记,园游会
Definitions
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- : noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
Examples
We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
The anti-crime cops began searching the likely path of flight.
Senhor José remains stationary, but this lengthy series of clauses propels the reader along an unmarked path.
But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.
Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.
In such conditions many kinds which do not flourish very freely in the open garden, grow into handsome specimens.