lamb to slaughter
Naive toward danger
A lamb to slaughter is someone innocent or unsuspecting who faces harm, destruction, or exploitation without awareness of the danger.
The phrase evokes the image of a docile animal led calmly to its death: They sent those young soldiers off like lambs to slaughter.
Often appears as led like a lamb to slaughter or simply like a lamb to the slaughter.
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- victimOne harmed by another
- sitting duckDefenseless person or thing
- easy preyVulnerable, readily caught
naive · blind faith · unsuspecting · helpless · blood · trusting · vulnerable · doomed · death march · biblical · betrayal · gentle · meek · oblivious · led · led astray · knife · altar
- naivetygreenhorn, newbie, tenderfoot, raw recruit, born yesterday
- Biblical ReferencesAdam and Eve, ark, forbidden fruit, Garden of Eden, Ten Commandments
lamb to slaughtereyes wide open
State of full awareness
fully informed · forewarned · deliberate choice · calculated risk · informed consent
lamb to slaughterwolf in sheep's clothing
Concealed threat appearing innocent
predator · hunter · aggressor · apex predator · butcher
lamb to slaughterarmed to the teeth
Fully equipped with weaponry
force to be reckoned with · loaded for bear · fighting chance · dark horse · survivor
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