2006-11-16 16:27:59 · 18 answers · asked by earthygirl 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The term originated from the fact that occasionally a black sheep will be born into a herd of white sheep. Black wool is less desirable then white because of it's inability to be dyed. That is why a person who is different from their family in their beliefs or actions is called a 'black sheep'.
2006-11-16 16:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by Melanie J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the person that stands out in a family. Other sheep are white. No racial stuff. Normally sheep are white and the different one or the bad one was black. Ergo blacksheep.
2006-11-17 00:32:49 · answer #2 · answered by Dorkboy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
figurative use is supposedly because a real black sheep had wool that could not be dyed and was thus worthless. 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).
2006-11-17 00:39:25 · answer #3 · answered by shepardj2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Black Sheep was the one that was different than the others in the herd. A kid doesn't have to be bad to be a black sheep, in fact the kid may be the good one in an otherwise nasty family.
2006-11-17 00:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by Clout 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shepherds used to keep flocks of all white sheep with a few black sprinkled in. That oddball black sheep helped them keep track of how many sheep were in the field. If the black was missing, they would have lost 10 other white sheep as well.
2006-11-17 00:33:11 · answer #5 · answered by pixy_stix 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cause the blacksheep is just a sheep that turnd oit different and probly a long time ago
2006-11-17 00:32:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most sheep are white...or light colored...the black sheep is the odd one of the bunch....hence...blacksheep of the family
2006-11-17 00:35:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means they are totally different. a black sheep would be very hard to find right? that is why they call a family outcast that, because they are really screwed up in comparison to the family
2006-11-17 00:34:38 · answer #8 · answered by Bistro 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From a full white herd of sheep having an oddball black sheep!
2006-11-17 00:31:40 · answer #9 · answered by JoeJOE 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's not who the bible warns you about though. The bible warns you about the fox in sheeps clothing. He doesn't warn you about the black sheep.
Black sheep (trouble makers, prostiutes , drug dealers, etc.
Wolf in sheeps clothing ( saducces pharasiees, pastors preachers.
Read the parable of the vineyard. In Luke
2006-11-17 00:33:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋