- 看过 white elephant 的人也看了 :
- albatross
- ball and chain
- burden
- burthen
- onus
white elephant 的定义
- a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
- a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner: When he bought the mansion he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant.
- an abnormally whitish or pale elephant, usually found in Thailand; an albino elephant.
white elephant 近义词
expensive possession
white elephant 的近义词 6 个
- albatross
- ball and chain
- burden
- burthen
- more trouble than it's worth
- onus
更多white elephant例句
- The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.
- If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
- There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
- The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
- But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.
- And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
- None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
- One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
- That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
- Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?