英语词汇“white elephant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	white elephant
释义	Trends of white elephant View usage for: white elephant Word forms: plural white elephants countable noun If you describe something as a white elephant, you mean that it is a waste of money because it is completely useless. [disapproval] The pavilion has become a £14 million steel and glass white elephant. white elephant in British English noun 1. a rare albino or pale grey variety of the Indian elephant, regarded as sacred in parts of S Asia 2. a possession that is unwanted by its owner 3. an elaborate venture, construction, etc, that proves useless 4. a rare or valuable possession the upkeep of which is very expensive white elephant in American English 1. an albino elephant 2. something from which little profit or use is derived; esp., such a possession maintained at much expense 3. US any object no longer desired by its owner, but of possible value to others Examples of 'white elephant' in a sentence white elephant After just one win in his first six races for Pipe, he was beginning to look something of a white elephant. The Sun (2016) By spring he might have become a white elephant. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Plans for the site's legacy are opaque, and this could well become the white elephant to end all white elephants. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Word lists with white elephant Horses, rhinos and other perissodactyls
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