like lambs to the slaughter Idiom

like lambs to the slaughter

Idiom(s): like lambs to the slaughter

Theme: DOOM

quietly and without seeming to realize or complain about the likely difficulties or dangers of a situation.
• Young men fighting in World War I simply went like lambs to the slaughter.
• Our team went on the football field like lambs to the slaughter to meet the league-leaders.

like a lamb to (the) slaughter

Without affair for what is to appear (because one does not apprehend the agitation ahead). This byword comes from the Bible. When I did business with Michael, I was like a lamb to the slaughter—I had no abstraction he was such a bent mastermind. The poor kid and his aegis aggregation weren't acquainted of what the case had in store—it was like lambs to annihilation the moment the balloon began.Learn more: lamb, like, slaughter

like lambs to the slaughter

and like a lamb to the slaughterFig. agilely and after appearing to apprehend the acceptable difficulties or dangers of a situation. Young men angry in World War I artlessly went like lambs to the slaughter. Our aggregation went on the football acreage like lambs to the annihilation to accommodated the league-leaders.Learn more: lamb, like, slaughter

like lambs to the slaughter

Helpless and blind of danger. This amount of accent aboriginal appeared in the Old Testament’s Book of Isaiah (“He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,” 53:7) and afresh in the Book of Jeremiah (“I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter,” 11:19) and has been again anytime since. In contempo decades it was sometimes afflicted to like pigs to the slaughter, with about the aforementioned meaning.Learn more: lamb, like, slaughter

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like lambs to the slaughter Idiom

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