like a lamb to the slaughter

Idioms  

1. 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.

---

Example Sentences

So she set out to reveal the magnetic yet sheltered young woman who later reportedly felt "like a lamb to the slaughter" when she entered her artfully arranged marriage.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

"I have no desire to return like a lamb to the slaughter," the artist told the BBC by phone.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2017

He was like a lamb to the slaughter.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

I am going like a lamb to the slaughter," he is reported to have said, "but I am as calm as a summer's morning.

From The Story of "Mormonism" by Talmage, James Edward

Then he'd know where he was, and not be led like a lamb to the slaughter by the wrong one.

From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)