歧路亡羊 qí lù wáng yáng

qí lù wáng yáng set phrase sheep lost at a fork in the road
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: A simile in 列子 Liezi on the difficulty of finding the proper way (Guoyu '歧路亡羊'; Mathews 1931 '歧路亡羊', p. 68)