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- turn back 89
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- Silhouette 57
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- lingering 51
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white elephant
Word family
ˌwhite ˈelephant noun [countableC]
Examples from the Corpus
white elephant• Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.• The dam has become something of a white elephant.• Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.• More spaces are needed at less cost not another white elephant office block.• What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?• There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
From Longman Business Dictionary
white elephantˌwhite ˈelephant noun [countableC]
something that is completely useless, even though it cost a lot of money
The hotel is unfinished and structurally unsound - a white elephant of epic proportions.
(1800-1900) From the supposed practice of the King of Siam, who gave to people he did not like a white elephant, which cost a very large amount of money to keep
ˌwhite ˈelephant noun
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
See also: white elephant
white elephant
Something that is silly or useless: gimmick, white elephant, rubbish...
Failure: fail, fiasco, debacle...
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