like turkeys voting for christmas
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used to refer to a situation where individuals or groups unknowingly support or participate in something that will ultimately bring harm or negative consequences to themselves
Dialect
British
British
Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
例
By the time they realized the truth, they had already been like turkeys voting for Christmas, and it was too late to change the outcome.
If they vote for that bill, they'll be like turkeys voting for Christmas.
