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white elephants

n. (white elephant English)

Usage examples of "white elephants".

These were the famous White Elephants of Sitting Bull, used in the Liberation of Chicago in the 50th century.

Last year he brought two white elephants for us to ride, and their headdresses and the pavilions on their backs were all covered in diamonds and pearls.

But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’.

The search for conventional weapons had yielded an abundance of white elephants.

He is often depicted seated on a lotus supported by one or more white elephants.

They suffer from a parasitical skin disease, like the so-called white elephants of India, and they do _not_ live a thousand years, and their black blood is _not_ an Elixir of Life, and if you touch them, your hair will _not_ fall out.

A drove of white elephants would n't have been good enough for her now, if each one carried a castle on his back.