GeneD
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2017
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- Student or Learner
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- Russian
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- Belarus
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- Belarus
Never heard of this before. When I read your comment, I imagined the picture of lemmings committing mass suicide and nearly choked with laughter, frankly.An extremely pejorative version is to refer to people as lemmings. The idea that lemmings periodically commit mass suicide has apparently been debunked by science but lives on in the popular imagination
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