follow someone off a cliff

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follow someone off a cliff (third-person singular simple present follows someone off a cliff, present participle following someone off a cliff, simple past and past participle followed someone off a cliff)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) To follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.
    Many feared that the Democrats would follow the president off a cliff.

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