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white elephant |
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a white elephant something that has cost a lot of money but has no useful purpose. The town's new leisure centre, recently completed at a cost of ten million pounds, seems likely to prove a white elephant. |
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He ran his finger over them, and when he came to Siam he contemplated with great attention the red field and the white elephant. And I will not say what my first act was when I found myself alone with my white elephant in the middle of the room; enough that the siphon was still doing its work when the glass slipped through my fingers to the floor. Then, follow white elephants caparisoned in countless gorgeous colours, and infinite in number and attendants. |
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white elephant
