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lead on

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lead someone on
to deceive someone in order to get what you want from them. She led him on for five months while she was going out with another guy.
Related vocabulary: toy with someone
See also: lead


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Lead on, fellow, and take me directly to your master.
Every body present could see, now, that Delamayn had been allowed to lead on sufferance--had been dextrously drawn on to put out his whole power--and had then, and not till then, been seriously deprived of the lead.
"Ask that of God, my son," said Don Quixote; and do thou lead on where thou wilt, for this time I leave our lodging to thy choice; but reach me here thy hand, and feel with thy finger, and find out how many of my teeth and grinders are missing from this right side of the upper jaw, for it is there I feel the pain.
 
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