Wiktionary
n. A disadvantaged or marginalized person who can be "bring back into the fold" with a little effort.
Usage examples of "lost sheep".
The patriarch of my order would be more than willing to ransom two of its lost sheep, should they be assured that neither of us has suffered harm in your\nowidctlpar hands.
She'd be like the silly girl in the story, crying over lost sheep she didn't have, bought with the money from hens she hadn't yet hatched, from eggs her two little half-grown chicks hadn't yet laid!
Shed be like the silly girl in the story, crying over lost sheep she didnt have, bought with the money from hens she hadnt yet hatched, from eggs her two little half-grown chicks hadnt yet laid!
In Greece, it is Epimenides, the poet, who, while searching for a lost sheep, wanders into a cave where he slumbers forty-seven years.
They helped dig out the village after the first, and worst, snowfall, repaired those portions of the palisade they could reach through the drifts, built benches and tables, dug out two canoes from logs, searched out lost sheep, and otherwise kept themselves busy.
Rand was not as good a tracker as Uno, but any boy in the Two Rivers was expected to track well enough to find a lost sheep, or a rabbit for dinner.