lamb to the slaughter

So she set out to reveal the magnetic yet sheltered young woman who later reportedly felt "like a lamb to the slaughter" when she entered her artfully arranged marriage.

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.

"We protect our state, our land, our relatives, we have a different motivation. They have no way out. Their leadership, their party said, no step back. Because to retreat means prison, means execution. So they are moving forward like a lamb to the slaughter."

In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” a wife who has killed her husband ingeniously disposes of the highly original murder weapon.

"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.