like a lamb to the slaughter การใช้

• He is pushing us there like a lamb to the slaughter, " said one soldier, who did not give his name because his relatives live in the Croatian-held port of Split.
• "Yiddish was viewed as the language of the pathetic Jew who didn't stand up for himself and went like a lamb to the slaughter " at the hands of the Nazis, he said.
• These are : " 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 its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth " and " I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter . . . ", both of which were very frequently cited by medieval commentaries.