English idioms - Black Sheep - Learn English idioms

Описание: English idioms - Black Sheep - Learn English idioms
Improve your English with English idiomatic expressions. First, you need to understand what idioms are.
An idiom is a set phrase, widely used, it should be understood as one whole, it has a particular meaning that you can hardly deduce from the meanings of the individual words. English is full of idiomatic expressions, but all languages have a wide range of idioms.
In this video, I would like to teach one idiomatic expression: black sheep.
If you want to learn English idiomatic expressions, this video lesson is for you! The focus is the "black sheep", but what or who is a black sheep?

Actually, a black sheep can be a black sheep, a sheep with black fleece. If somebody is labelled the black sheep of the family, then it means the person is considered bad, a disgrace, somebody who does not belong or does not share common family values.

If you have a cousin who seems to be the one troublemaker in your family, you can call him the black sheep of the family. In other words, he doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of your family members.
The black sheep is the odd one out, whether he's a disgrace to the family or just doesn't seem to belong.
If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.