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White elephant   /waɪt ˈɛləfənt/   Listen
White elephant

noun
1.
A valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive.
2.
Albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia.





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"White elephant" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Polktown ye won't," said the expressman. "Yeou might as well try ter raffle off a white elephant." ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... the way. And when he came down to the earth again he had lost all the presents except the pudding, but he had held that all the way down. So he sold it to a man for forty million hundred dollars; and then he was so rich that they made him King of Siam, and he rode on a white elephant with pink ears all ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards


Words linked to "White elephant" :   Elephas maximus, Indian elephant, possession


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