led as a sheep to the slaughter

The now commonly-used English idiom “led as a sheep (or: lamb) to the slaughter” (meaning doing something without knowing that something bad is going to happen and therefore act calmly) was first coined in 1560 in the Geneva Bible. (Source: Crystal 2010, p. 282)

In Russian, this phrase (овца на заклание — ovtsa na zaklaniye) is also widely used as an idiom in every-day life. The wording of the quote originated in the Russian Synodal Bible (publ. 1876). (Source: Reznikov 2020, p. 97)

For other idioms in English that were coined by Bible translation, see here.

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