Synonyms for black sheep
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of black sheep
Origin :- by 1822 in figurative sense of "member of some group guilty of offensive conduct and unlike the other members," supposedly because a real black sheep had wool that could not be dyed and was thus worth less. But one black sheep in a flock was considered good luck by shepherds in Sussex, Somerset, Kent, Derbyshire. Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme's first known publication is in "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book" (c.1744).
- noun disgraceful person
- Bill Dozier was with him, Bill who was the black sheep in the fine old Dozier family.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- As little notion had his father that his son Cornelius was a black sheep.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- We are content to say that there are black sheep in every flock and so pass on.
- Extract from : « Morals in Trade and Commerce » by Frank B. Anderson
- Well, good-bye, dear, and don't worry too much about your black sheep.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- Rosa was her especial torment; the black sheep of the brood.
- Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
- I've be'n somethin' of a black sheep—but the black's wearin' off in spots.
- Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
- You know as well as I do that she has always looked upon me as a black sheep.
- Extract from : « Tom Gerrard » by Louis Becke
- He is one of the Walthams of Virginia, a black sheep, true, but a Waltham.
- Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London
- Was there a bit of black sheep in her, and was the man calling to it?
- Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
- However, there is a skeleton in every fold—I mean to say, a black sheep in every cupboard.
- Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain
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