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单词 like a lamb to the slaughter
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like a lamb to the slaughter


Also, as lambs to the slaughter. Innocently and helplessly, without realizing the danger. For example, She agreed to appeal to the board, little knowing she would go like a lamb to the slaughter. This expression appears in several biblical books (Isaiah, Jeremiah), and the simile itself was used by Chaucer.

Words nearby like a lamb to the slaughter

like a champ, like a chicken with its head cut off, like a drowned rat, like a fish out of water, like a house afire, like a lamb to the slaughter, like anything, like a shot, like as not, like as two peas in a pod, like a ton of bricks
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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