Drink the Kool-Aid
To blindly follow questionable ideas or principles, usually because someone with a fancy title said so. A reference to the Jonestown tragedy that somehow became acceptable office slang.
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Examples:
- "She's really drinking the Kool-Aid on this new management philosophy."
- "I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid on this 'agile transformation' nonsense."
- "The whole team drank the Kool-Aid and now we're all miserable."
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915 views • Created 1/12/2023
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