Ser la oveja negra
Meaning: To be the outcast of the family or group.
Language: Spanish
Literally: To be the black sheep
Category: Animals
Origin: A rare black sheep stood out in the flock and was worth less to shepherds, becoming the figure of the odd one out.
More idioms — Animals
- Tirar o cavalo da chuva — To give up on an expectation.
- Pagar mico — To embarrass yourself publicly.
- Как сельдь в бочке (Kak sel'd' v bochke) — Packed together very tightly.
- Вешать всех собак (Veshat' vsekh sobak) — To blame someone for everything.
- 井底之蛙 (Jǐng dǐ zhī wā) — Someone with a narrow, limited worldview.
- 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù) — Vainly hoping a lucky fluke will repeat itself.
More Spanish idioms
- Echar leña al fuego — To make a bad situation worse.
- Tener más cara que espalda — To be utterly shameless and brazen.
- Tener mala uva — To have a nasty temper or ill intentions.
- Ponerse como una sopa — To get soaked to the bone.
- Estar hasta en la sopa — To be everywhere; impossible to avoid.
- Buscarle tres pies al gato — To overcomplicate things; to look for trouble.
From our tongue twisters
- Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre barril; rápido ruedan los carros sobre los rieles del ferrocarril. — The definitive Spanish rr drill — unrelenting double-r from start to finish.
- Parangaricutirimícuaro — Not a sentence but a single word — a legendary 22-letter pronunciation challenge from a r…
- Pablito clavó un clavito, ¿qué clavito clavó Pablito? — A bouncy drill on the 'cl' cluster.