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Meanings of white elephant in inglês
Usage of white elephant in inglês
1
These men who stole the sacred white elephant are brave and desperate.
2
It's as good as the sacred white elephant or the blood-sweating hippopotamus.
3
Chang Phoouk, or white elephant, as a deity, and worship it accordingly.
4
But the white elephant raises shrugs in Mantecal wherever it is mentioned.
5
Can she be sure it won't end up being another white elephant?
6
To the puppeteers, the quantum II hyperdrive shunt was a white elephant.
7
The cannery was a white elephant, without takers in the market.
8
The South was finding black slavery a sort of white elephant.
9
The king, seated on his great white elephant, was riding through the city.
10
He was miraculously conceived-hismother's side in the form of a white elephant.
11
The latter remains, and, thanks to the white elephant, may be triumphantly successful.
12
Barnum with Tom Thumb and the white elephant never made such a sensation.
13
There had always been a white elephant in Miss Emily's window.
14
Anyone out there remember the great white elephant that was Wimbledon for Dublin?
15
It belongs to the King's cousin, Prince Joseph, and is a white elephant.
16
I'm told that new house of his is a white elephant.
This collocation consists of:
Translations for white elephant
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White elephant through the time
White elephant across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common