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Значения термина white elephant на английском

русский
белый слон
португальский
elefante branco
испанский
elefante blanco
каталонский
elefant blanc

Idiom – name for large constructions that are not used.

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          These men who stole the sacred white elephant are brave and desperate.
          The Adventures of Kathlyn
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          It's as good as the sacred white elephant or the blood-sweating hippopotamus.
          Twelve Men
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          Chang Phoouk, or white elephant, as a deity, and worship it accordingly.
          The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections...
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          But the white elephant raises shrugs in Mantecal wherever it is mentioned.
          Reuters
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          Can she be sure it won't end up being another white elephant?
          The Guardian
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          To the puppeteers, the quantum II hyperdrive shunt was a white elephant.
          Ringworld
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          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...
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          The king, seated on his great white elephant, was riding through the city.
          More Jataka Tales
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          He was miraculously conceived-hismother's side in the form of a white elephant.
          Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
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          The latter remains, and, thanks to the white elephant, may be triumphantly successful.
          Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
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          Barnum with Tom Thumb and the white elephant never made such a sensation.
          The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
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          There had always been a white elephant in Miss Emily's window.
          The Tin Soldier
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          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
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          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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          португальский
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          elefante blanco
          каталонский
          elefant blanc
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