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Word | White elephant |
Chinese Meaning | 白象; 累赘物 |
albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia / If you call something a white elephant, you consider it useless although it may have cost a lot of money. / a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive / a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of., | |
Usage | ⇒ The new cultural centre is a real white elephant. It's so isolated that nobody goes there! ⇒ The wave of ‘urban renewal’ in the 195s and '6s gave us the devastated inner cities of today, and many projects become expensive, taxpayer-funded white elephants . |
Synonyms | onus, burden, burthen, cross, award, birthday present, box, cadeau, cargo, charge, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, embarrassment, encumbrance, fairing, freight, gift, hamper, |
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