Idiom
white sheep
Meaning
a conformist; an ordinary or conventional person
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is the white sheep of his artistic family.”
“While his siblings traveled the world, he stayed home and became a white sheep by taking a steady office job.”
“In a family of eccentric rebels, he stood out as the white sheep, preferring the comfort of predictable routines and conventional success.”
Examples
simple
“He is the white sheep of his artistic family.”
contextual
“While his siblings traveled the world, he stayed home and became a white sheep by taking a steady office job.”
complex
“In a family of eccentric rebels, he stood out as the white sheep, preferring the comfort of predictable routines and conventional success.”
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