a 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.

I told her that her new BMW is a 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.

A car is a white elephant for me.