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Phrase: Like a lamb to the slaughter
Here we walk hand in hand into an uncertain future like lambs to the slaughter.
I don’t want to tell you I told you so, but I like to toot my own horn, especially when I’m right.
When Russia annexed Crimea back in 2014, I told my students at that time that the West should not accept the status quo.
We, the West, should have, at that time, made an all-out effort to push Russia out.
We didn’t, and now, as a direct result, we, including Japan, are fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.
If it develops into WWIII, we will be going into it like lambs to the slaughter.
If you enter into something very innocently, not knowing that something terrible will happen, we say like a lamb to the slaughter.
Lambs are baby sheep and don’t know that they will be eaten.
When they are gathered together to be brought to the abattoir, they are excited to be going on a new adventure.
If you don’t want to go into things in this life like a lamb to the slaughter, you should always hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
It’s not enough to say something won’t happen and blindly live life like things will never change.
Things always change.
In fact, the only constant in life is change.
Boys and girls, we are going through a period of change, and things will never go back to the way they were.
We need to study history and use that wisdom so we don’t go into the future like lambs to the slaughter.
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