like lemmings
in asillyway, withoutthinking, and inlargenumbers:
一窝蜂地Peoplerushedlikelemmingstoinvestin thecompany.人们一窝蜂地把钱投进了该公司。
Doing things without fear or proper thought
- bravado
- carpe diem
- daredevil
- desperado
- devil-may-care
- hotheadedly
- hotheadedness
- impetuous
- impetuously
- impetuousness
- like there is/was no tomorrowidiom
- precipitate
- precipitately
- rashness
- reckless
- recklessly
- tomorrow
- trigger-happy
- unafraid
- with no thought forsomethingidiom
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like lemmings
I resent the implication that they arelikelemmings.
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All the evidence suggests that the institutions actlikelemmings—and they move in both directions.
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Nobody wants this country to lose on this technology, but we should not rushlikelemmingstowards it.
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The system is clearly failing, at least with this minority which seems to press on to disaster,likelemmingsover a cliff.
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They heard it on alternative radio, and then they rushed outlikelemmingsto buy it.
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