Thrown to the lions
thrown to the lions definition
Figuratively, to be thrown to the lions is to be placed in a difficult situation for which one is completely unprepared: “To put that new teacher in front of those unruly students is to throw her to the lions.” During the Roman persecutions, Christians were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum.
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