Like a headless chicken (British) also like a chicken with its head cut off (American) if you do something like a headless chicken, you do it very quickly and without. Like a lamb to the slaughter. Also, as lambs to the slaughter. Innocently and helplessly, without realizing the danger. For example, She agreed to appeal to the board, little knowing she would go like a lamb to the slaughter .
This expression appears in several biblical books (Isaiah, Jeremiah), and the simile itself was used by Chaucer. A well-kept backyard hen, protected from hawks, raccoons and Fido, can easily live to be 8 or 10 years old, and ages of twice that are not unheard of. IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you’re likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who.
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