drink the Kool-Aid

See also: drink the Kool Aid

English

Alternative forms

drink the Kool Aid

Etymology

Referring to the Peoples Temple cult movement, who committed mass suicide in 1978 by drinking Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid as was believed then) laced with cyanide.

Verb

drink the Kool-Aid (third-person singular simple present drinks the Kool-Aid, present participle drinking the Kool-Aid, simple past drank the Kool-Aid, past participle drunk the Kool-Aid)

(colloquial, derogatory) To give in to pressure from others by uncritically accepting their ideology.
- 1999, Robert Young, Wendy Goldman Rohm, Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business
  Netscape, while willing to drink the open source Kool Aid, realized there were other important issues in the commercial sector.
- 2007, Doug Giles, A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor
  […] essentially three options to choose from when you're confronted with the liberal hooey. The options are: 1. You can drink the campus Kool Aid […]
- 2008, Andrew C Billings, Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television
  They "drink the Kool-Aid", as Lampley terms it, meaning that they buy into the Olympic experience.
- 2008, James Howard Kunstler, World Made by Hand
  "Then we better not drink the Kool-Aid. Have you been drinking the Kool-Aid, Robert?"

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