drink the Kool-Aid

phrase

: to comply unquestioningly with the demands or policies of a particular leader, ideology, or organization

Word History

Etymology

after a 1978 mass suicide in Guyana brought about when members of the Peoples Temple cult were ordered to consume a flavored drink mixed with cyanide

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drink the Kool-Aid

• anterograde
• accolade
• ambuscade
• antegrade
• balustrade
• barricade
• cannonade
• cavalcade
• centigrade
• chambermaid
• colonnade
• countertrade