[Answer] 6. One particularly foreboding and sinister idiom refers to the innocence of young lambs, who unwittingly follow, unaware that something horribly unpleasant is going to happen to them. Where are these lambs said to be going?

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...1. To the carving knife 2. To the chopping board 3. To the slaughter 4. The dinner table The phrase, "lamb to the slaughter", comes from the Bible (King James), and illustrates the helplessness of individuals who are unaware of the dangers that lie ahead of them. In 1953, Welsh author, Roald Dahl, wrote a short story entitled, "Lamb to the Slaughter", playing on the meaning of the idiom in a rather grotesque way. The plot of the story revolved around a usually mild-mannered woman named Mary Maloney, who murdered her husband when he tried to leave her, by hitting him over the head with a leg of lamb. Moreover when the police came to investigate, Mary came up with an ingenious way to get rid of the murder weapon, by serving it to them. Thus the police were, without realising it, the proverbial "lambs to the slaughter", innocently munching away on a rather unpleasant meal.

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To the slaughter:

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