like a lamb to the slaughter

Or she'd be led to him like a lamb to the slaughter.

And they send you in like a lamb to the slaughter.

"Ah, you think I'll allow myself to be led like a lamb to the slaughter?"

"They go to the concierge desk like a lamb to the slaughter."

He felt he had taken his only child like a lamb to the slaughter.

He's got a ring around his nose, and they're going to lead him like a lamb to the slaughter."

She had been sent in like a lamb to the slaughter, and she was lucky to be alive.

Julia agreed, unable to silence the small voice inside suggesting she was being led like a lamb to the slaughter.

He would not go meekly like a lamb to the slaughter, he decided.

Like a lamb to the slaughter!

He watched his wife being led unresisting toward the dwarf and the bed like a lamb to the slaughter and he could not help.

"I don't know," she answered, and at that moment Beatrice, pale and troubled, walked into the room, like a lamb to the slaughter.

As the Princess was later to admit, she went that day, in St Paul's Cathedral, "like a lamb to the slaughter."

Before he arrives, he prophesies, "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer's morning.

"Like a lamb to slaughter, yes, like a lamb to the slaughter...." The echoing refrain grew louder as they neared its origin.

You've had the wool pulled over your eyes - like a lamb to the slaughter - you're one of these 'we're all in this together' mob, so learn to live with it.

Talking blues is also popular as a medium for parody, as in "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter", Frank Hayes's talking-blues parody of Matty Groves:

"Whereupon Jack Lamont probably swore--I understand that profanity is sometimes distressingly prevalent aboard ship--but nevertheless he allowed the Lieutenant to lead him like a lamb to the slaughter.

"Listen, Vasily," Clan said, hunching toward the Russian until their noses were barely an inch apart, "I'll do what has to be done, but I have no intention of going in like a lamb to the slaughter.

Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman was led like a lamb to the slaughter as Courier, whose final defeat here last year kick-started the most serious slump of his career, raced to a 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 victory in just 1hour 48min.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and, as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

I led her out to them like a lamb to the slaughter. . . ." I pictured her, dragged aboard the dwarfs' ship, locked away in a dark place, alone and terrified, and with no one to help her.

Smith reluctantly agreed and submitted to arrest, further quoted as saying "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men.

Sarah Jessica Parker is the girlfriend, wound as tight as an E-string, who gets led home for the holidays like a lamb to the slaughter by a beloved son (Dermot Mulroney, above, with Ms. Parker, left, and Ms. Keaton).

Instead of lingering in a hospital for a year, and then being sent back like a lamb to the slaughter you will be down at Beer in a month, quit of the army for life, and with a wound pension which in your case should logically be a reduction of the ordinary pension.