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drink the Kool-Aid
drink the Kool-Aidto become a firm believer in something without any evidence of veracity; to follow a philosophy blindlydrink D0391700 (drĭngk)v. drank (drăngk), drunk (drŭngk), drink·ing, drinks v.tr.1. To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).2. To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel): drank a cup of tea.3. To take in or soak up; absorb: drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.4. To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect: drank in the beauty of the day.5. a. To give or make (a toast).b. To toast (a person or an occasion, for example): We'll drink your health.6. To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic beverages: drank our sorrows away.v.intr.1. To swallow liquid: drank noisily; drink from a goblet.2. To drink alcoholic beverages: They only drink socially.3. To salute a person or an occasion with a toast: We will drink to your continued success.n.1. a. A liquid that is fit for drinking; a beverage.b. An alcoholic beverage, such as a cocktail or beer.c. Chiefly Southern US See soft drink. tonic2. An amount of liquid swallowed: took a long drink from the fountain.3. Liquid for drinking: The host provided food and drink.4. Excessive or habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquor.5. Slang A body of water; the sea: The hatch cover slid off the boat and into the drink.Idiom: drink the Kool-Aid To become an unquestioning advocate for a group, cause, or belief.
[Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]drink the Kool-Aid
drink the Kool-Aid verb (US colloquial) To adopt the dogma of a group or leader without fully understanding its ramifications or implications; to participate in dangerous or lethal activities, or in something destined to fail, due to peer pressure.
The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” comes from the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, in which hundreds of members of the People’s Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana died after consuming a cyanide-laced powdered soft drink as part of a ritual suicide under the instruction of the cult leader Jim Jones. Many of these deaths are believed to be forced suicide or murder, rather than voluntary. |