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idiomlambgo like a lamb to the slaughterto accept an unpleasant or dangerous situation without trying to avoid, because you have no choice or do not realize how bad it will be:I was afraid of Mrs Price, and when she summoned me to help in the kitchen I went like a lamb to the slaughter.Many women had no experience of politics, and went into the election campaign like lambs to the slaughter.(as) quiet as a lambused in order to say that a person or animal is very quiet and calm, especially when you would expect them not to be:David went to bed at seven o'clock, quiet as a lamb.As soon as we took the dog out of the box, she was as quiet as a lamb, and she let us carry her home.compare quiet as a mouse
See:- (as) gentle as a lamb
- (as) innocent as a lamb
- (as) quiet as a lamb
- a lamb/lambs to the slaughter
- be as gentle as a lamb
- be mutton dressed as lamb
- gentle as a lamb
- hanged for a sheep (as well) as a lamb, (might) as well be
- hanged for a sheep as a lamb, might as well be
- I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
- in two shakes
- in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail
- innocent as a lamb
- like a lamb
- like a lamb being led to (the) slaughter
- like a lamb to (the) slaughter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like lambs to the slaughter
- March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
- March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
- may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as a lamb
- meek as a lamb
- might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
- might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb
- mutton dressed (up) as lamb
- mutton dressed as lamb
- on the lam
- quiet as a lamb
- take it on the lam
- two shakes of a lamb’s tail
- two shakes of a lamb's tail
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