any of various small, mouselike rodents of several genera including Lemmus, Myopus, and Dicrostonyx, of far northern regions, as L. lemmus, of Norway, Sweden, etc., noted for periodic mass migrations that sometimes involve crossing bodies of water. Incidental drownings that have occurred during such passage gave rise to the myth of mass suicides among supposedly frenzied lemmings jumping from cliffs into the sea.
a person who follows the will of others, especially in a mass movement, and heads straight into a situation or circumstance that is dangerous, stupid, or destructive: These lemmings that eat up conspiracy theories are so blinded by lies, they don’t even see the cliff they’re about to plummet over.
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Owls are carnivorous hunters known for feasting on mice, voles, lemmings, and even squirrels.
Less than a year later, I’m the first lemming off the cliff.
“You become a lemming in a big scary world,” says Zbitnoff of making the transition.
The articles say Miscavige exerts such influence that “managers follow his orders, however bizarre, with lemming-like obedience.”
The Lemming multiplies with great rapidity under favourable conditions.
The lemming and the musk ox found a home, and the wild horse pranced about unrestrained by the hand of man.
Arctic hares, rabbits, rein-deer; and the lemming, in some parts of the interior.
The next moment he lifted his head with a fat lemming dangling from either side of his fine jaws.
He was very prettily marked about the face and tail, so I concluded that he was not a common rat, but probably a lemming.