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Today we’re going to cover a topic which I have personally discussed with a few chickenmonkeydogians, but which we’ve found no complete solution for. Since we talked about elephants in a post last week, it seems like a good time for this question.
The Question:
Given the meanings of the following two terms:
White elephant: a : a property requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit b : an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to others c : something of little or no value
Elephant in the room: a difficult situation that is very obvious but not discussed or addressed
How would you suggest we define the following phrase?
White elephant in the room
a difficult situation that no one cares about
or perhaps a difficult situation that one wants to get rid of.
I think it is a difficult situation that someone wants to pass on to someone else.
A mother-in-law.
@ forkboy1965
Hilarious!