follow someone off a cliff

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.

   You can’t just follow someone off a cliff, especially when they lead you into bad decisions.

   He had a habit of blindly following the leader, almost like he would follow them off a cliff.

   Don’t be the kind of person who would follow someone off a cliff, always think for yourself.

• if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it
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