The title of this story by Roald Dahl is a wonderful play on words. On the one hand a lamb (or rather a frozen leg of lamb) is used by a woman to murder her husband. On the other, we are left wondering how the title might relate to the English idiom "Like a lamb to the slaughter." Which of the two (the husband, the wife or both) could be described as a gentle person who goes calmly and innocently about their business, not knowing that something very unpleasant is about to happen to them?
The title of this story by Roald Dahl is a wonderful play on words. On the one hand a lamb (or rather a frozen leg of lamb) is used by a woman to murder her husband. On the other, we are left wondering how the title might relate to the English idiom "Like a lamb to the slaughter." Which of the two (the husband, the wife or both) could be described as a gentle person who goes calmly and innocently about their business, not knowing that something very unpleasant is about to happen to them?
