| 单词 | white elephant |
| 释义 | white elephant 1. a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants. 2. a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner: When he bought the mansion he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant. 3. an abnormally whitish or pale elephant, usually found in Thailand; an albino elephant. [1850-55; from the perh. apocryphal tale that the King of Siam would award a disagreeable courtier a white elephant, the upkeep of which would ruin the courtier] |
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