The idiom "elephant in the room" is not as common as the idiom "800-pound gorilla in the room", but both have similar connotations. The "elephant" applies to some dominant element, situation, or eventuality that everyone is aware of but that is either ignored or barely acknowledged. For example, shareholders at a meeting could be discussing the fine points of a merger, knowing all too well that the government was threatening to shut down the operations of one of the companies involved.
An example sentence :
"The elephant in the room at the teacher's conference was the new mayor's promise to remove inefficient teachers."
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The duration of The Elephant in the Living Room is 1.6 hours.
Example sentence: The elephant's tusks and ears were large.
An elephant is a pachyderm.
The possessive form is the elephant's tusks and ears.Example sentence:The rain was dripping from the elephant's tusks and ears.
An Elephant.
One sentence that uses the words a white elephant is "White elephants are sacred to people in Asia". Another sentence is " A white elephant is an albino elephant".
A mouse is not as big as an elephant.
Please help me make room for this new desk.
a work colleague of mine eats alot throughout the day, no wonder he is as heavy as an elephant
The Elephant in the Room was created on 2008-03-11.
The duration of The Elephant in the Living Room is 1.6 hours.
There was a grey elephant clinging to the side of the house.
because when your in a small room and there is an elephant there it is not very pleasant because your very squished :)
I cleared my room!
Example sentence: The elephant's tusks and ears were large.
The cast of Elephant Room - 2010 includes: Peter Alexandrou Vi Flaten
It was quite quiet in the room.