To be "led down the primrose path" is a common idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray, often by a hypocrite. An early appearance of the phrase in print occurs in Shakespeare's 1602 play Hamlet (Act I, Scene III), where Ophelia, rebuffing her brother Laertes' insistence that she resist Hamlet's advances, accuses Laertes of hypocrisy: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede. Variations of the phrase, such as "primrose way" and "primrose lane" are known. In Macbeth, the Porter speaks of "the primrose way to th'everlasting bonfire". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_Path Down the primrose path: Shakespeare also used it in Macbeth, where the porter speaks of "treading the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire". This implies that in his day it was already a standard metaphor for the easy, pleasant self-indulgent way, as opposed to the "rocky road of righteousness". http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/41/messages/347.html 1. pleasurable lifestyle: an easy or pleasurable way of life 2. easy course of action: an easy way or option, especially one that leads to disaster [< "the primrose path of dalliance" in Shakespeare'sHamlet] http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861736924 1. A way of life of worldly ease or pleasure. 2. A course of action that seems easy and appropriate but can actually end in calamity. http://www.bartleby.com/61/6/P0560600.html 1. a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: 2. a course of action that is easy or tempting but hazardous http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/primrose+path Never one to discard a good metaphor, Shakespeare used "primrose path" again in his play "Macbeth," but this time to mean "a course of action that seems easy, but ends in disaster." This sense is still often heard in accounts of a deluded person who was "led down the primrose path" to perdition and ruin by an unscrupulous leader, friend, or, lately, stockbroker. http://www.word-detective.com/112402.html#primrose

To the person on it, it leads to no where.