A person who has lost their home, family, or means of support, often wandering aimlessly and feeling desperate and abandoned; a person without a place to go.
他生意失败后，感到自己就像丧家之犬，不知何去何从。
After his business failed, he felt like a lost dog, not knowing where to go or what to do.
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Ancient
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Once, Confucius was separated from his disciples in Zheng state. He stood by the East Gate, looking lost.
When Zigong (one of his disciples) asked a local about Confucius's whereabouts, the person described an old man by the East Gate who looked like "a dog that has lost its home," standing there in a daze.
Confucius, upon hearing this description later, smiled calmly and said, "To describe me in such a way is fine. But to say I resemble a homeless dog, that is indeed true! Indeed true!"
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