Used of something or someone unsuited to a given environment, placed there hopefully for well-intended reasons but left defenceless. From a decision by the relevant authorities in Dublin,
Ireland in recent years to mount
life-size statues of cows in various
media and colours in outdoor locations throughout the centre of the city. The cows were soon vandalised, including
one dainty little critter with an elaborate design of cut glass that was left, as you do, in one of the less salubrious areas of the city centre and promptly smashed.