prodigal son
nounEtymology With reference to Luke 15:11–32.
1
Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
- Here I am, the prodigal son The self proclaimed deprived Spending hours of fighting the peace When I should lay it on the line2010, “Enter Dog of Pavlov”, performed by Soilwork:
- Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:
2
A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).
- Related terms
- kill the fatted calf