lamb to the slaughter
Example Sentences
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The paper attacked selection "stuff-ups", too, criticising the inclusion of Cooper Connolly as being like "throwing a lamb to the slaughter".
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
It's much easier to follow Diana's gaze because she described herself as "the lamb to the slaughter," and it was obvious that was what was going on.
From Salon ● May 5, 2023
"I was kind of this lamb to the slaughter," recalls Gillespie, who was also joined on the show by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2021
The resulting scenes are painful: Diana really does come across as a lamb to the slaughter, a description she once used of herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
I go to the card catalogue like a lamb to the slaughter, poke my head into Knowledge—somewhere—and am lost, but the light of it on the spirit does not fade away.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
