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What does the person is "drinking kool-aid" mean?
What does the person is "drinking kool-aid" mean?
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"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is an expression used to refer to a person who believes in a possibly doomed or dangerous idea because of perceived potential high ...or The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to followership at its worse. It was coined after a delusional, pseudo-guru named Jim Jones led his cult, the Peoples Temple, to mass suicide. Over 900 people, including 304 children, killed themselves by drinking from a vat of grape-flavored drink laced with cyanide
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Drinking the Kool-Aid" means to blindly follow, or believe something or someone without even questioning the facts. Refusing to acknowledge the real truth.
It took a few years after the horrifying shock of the mass murder before people started using this phrase.
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