🐑 Sheep
"Black sheep"
Meaning
A person who is different from the rest of the family or group, often in a way others criticize.
About the sheep
Sheep follow the flock rather than break away, which is the basis for idioms about blind conformity.
Example sentence
Everyone in the family loved football, but Sara loved poetry, so they called her the black sheep.
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Which idiom means...
A person who is different from the rest of the family or group, often in a way others criticize.
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"Separate the sheep from the goats"
To tell the good from the bad or the skilled from the unskilled.
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"Follow like sheep"
To copy others without thinking.
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"Get someone's goat"
To annoy someone.
SheepIdiom
"Black sheep"
A person who is different from the rest of a group.
SheepIdiom
"Black sheep"
A person who is different from the rest of a family or group.