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Significados de white elephant en inglés

ruso
белый слон
portugués
elefante branco
español
elefante blanco
catalán
elefant blanc

Idiom – name for large constructions that are not used.

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          Uso de white elephant en inglés
          1
          These men who stole the sacred white elephant are brave and desperate.
          The Adventures of Kathlyn
          2
          It's as good as the sacred white elephant or the blood-sweating hippopotamus.
          Twelve Men
          3
          Chang Phoouk, or white elephant, as a deity, and worship it accordingly.
          The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections...
          4
          But the white elephant raises shrugs in Mantecal wherever it is mentioned.
          Reuters
          5
          Can she be sure it won't end up being another white elephant?
          The Guardian
          6
          To the puppeteers, the quantum II hyperdrive shunt was a white elephant.
          Ringworld
          7
          The cannery was a white elephant, without takers in the market.
          Poor Man's Rock
          8
          The South was finding black slavery a sort of white elephant.
          Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
          9
          The king, seated on his great white elephant, was riding through the city.
          More Jataka Tales
          10
          He was miraculously conceived-hismother's side in the form of a white elephant.
          Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
          11
          The latter remains, and, thanks to the white elephant, may be triumphantly successful.
          Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
          12
          Barnum with Tom Thumb and the white elephant never made such a sensation.
          The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
          13
          There had always been a white elephant in Miss Emily's window.
          The Tin Soldier
          14
          Anyone out there remember the great white elephant that was Wimbledon for Dublin?
          The Irish Times
          15
          It belongs to the King's cousin, Prince Joseph, and is a white elephant.
          Without Prejudice
          16
          I'm told that new house of his is a white elephant.
          The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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