white elephant

The foreign aid to the country was believed to be nothing but a white elephant.

Him a white lie, which made him white with fury, but when he realized his project is a white elephant, his face turned as white as a sheet.

The exact nature of the link between a wandering white elephant and Hillary Clinton is a Burmese mystery too deep to delve here.

His birth was foretold by a spirit (a white elephant rather than the angel Gabriel) who then entered his mother's womb!

That enormous wardrobe your mother gave us has been nothing but a white elephant.

Regarded as a "white elephant" by the Admiralty, Magnificent was broken up for scrap shortly after the War ended.

If you are invited to a white-elephant party be sure to find a ridiculous and funny present to bring with you to the party.

The town's new recreation center, recently completed at a cost of ten million dollars, seems likely to prove a white elephant.

This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.

The angel figurine reminded me of the white elephant gift exchange game that we play every year.

Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.

When he bought a car he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant.

The king used a white elephant to punish any of his officials who displeased him.

The kings used a white elephant to punish any of his men who displeased him.

They gave us a number of very large pictures as a wedding present; but as we lived in a very small flat the present was a white elephant.

How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?

A "white elephant" is something which will cost you money, perhaps an increasing amount of money over time, and in the end, have no value.

Buying such a white elephant is simply wasting money.

Each holiday for me seemed like a white elephant, a thing which can't make people excited.

That would be a white elephant to me.

We don't want the house, which has been a white elephant.

The lamp is a real white elephant; It does not work.

The new printer's a white elephant. It's very complicated to use, so everyone still prints with the old one.

The family sits alfresco in front of a pub whose name, the White Elephant, may be intended to convey a grim irony.

The new opera house will be a white elephant: it is too small for proper opera productions, and no large opera company will want to use it.

Mike doesn't want the house , it always has been a white elephant .

I'll never buy a car, for it's only a white elephant to me.

So, they moved the white elephant to the basement and opened the Verslunin Herdubreid design shop in their firm's storefront.

His newly employed servant woman was extremely lazy and ate a lot, no more than a white elephant.

Not only that, due to clumsy government planning, when the Sealink is finished it will be in danger of becoming a white elephant.

That standard lamp is a real white elephant-it doesn't work and it doesn't go with the rest of the furniture.

Red elephant fire, powder elephant rosy cloud, white elephant snow.

Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.

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I told her that her new BMW is a white elephant.

What is one's white elephant is someone else's pearl beyond price.

I saw an unusual white elephant.

The small country's space program has become a white elephant that is draining the national coffers .

The fountain is a white elephant.

The car is a white elephant for me. I can't drive it.

Now people in England call a useless thing "a white elephant. "

A motor-car would be a white elephant to him, because he can't drive it.

Did you see that gift she gave me? What should I do with this white elephant?

White Elephant Any investment that nobody wants because it is a money loser.

A car is a white elephant for me.

Are you scratching your head right now? I know I sure was. Until I saw the white elephant sitting in the room. . .

The Return of The White Elephant Blessings of Self Acceptance