white elephant in English
The wave of ‘urban renewal’ in the 1950s and '60s gave us the devastated inner cities of today, and many projects become expensive, taxpayer-funded white elephants .
Use "white elephant" in a sentence
1. Jumble sale White elephant gift exchange "White Elephant Gifts".
2. That is a white elephant.
3. There's a white elephant sale today.
4. I saw an unusual white elephant.
5. Jan's factory is an absolute white elephant.
6. The car he bought was a white elephant.
7. A car is a white elephant forr me.
8. This radio is really a white elephant to me.
9. The dam has become something of a white elephant.
10. Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah William McGonagall
11. Red elephant fire, powder elephant rosy cloud, white elephant snow.
12. My new car turned out to be my white elephant.
13. Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
14. The big garden square is a white elephant in my city.
15. Yesterday's bargain becomes today's over - priced out - of - date white elephant.
16. That super size desk is a white elephant to his room.
17. What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?
18. Mike doesn't want the house, it always has been a white elephant.
19. The pavilion has become a ￡4 million steel and glass white elephant.
20. Now people in the West calk a useless thing "a white elephant".
21. The pavilion has become a ￡14 million steel and glass white elephant.
22. When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
23. A motor car would be a white elephant to him, because he can't drive.
24. White elephant lion dance dance alone most of the Department of Fuyang Lvmao text lions.
25. The king used a white elephant to punish any of his officials who displeased him.
26. 19 There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
27. A white elephant (also albino elephant) is a rare kind of elephant, but not a distinct species.
28. Ambles - Ambles Northampton is located in a castle and offers guests good access to Playhouse Theatre and White Elephant restaurant nearby
29. Soon after a white elephant, holding a white lotus flower in its trunk, appeared and went round her three times, entering her womb through her right side.
30. HSINBYUSHIN ဆင်ဖြူရှင် m & f Burmese, History Means "white elephant" in Burmese, from ဆင် (hcang) meaning "elephant" and ဖြူ (hpru) meaning "white, pure"
31. The velodrome is ready; the aquatics centre is ready; the stadium – once seen as a potential white elephant – is now being fought over by football clubs who want to use it.
32. A Bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every Bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo
33. Parents-to-be can book the two-night Babymoon package at Nantucket’s White Elephant, where mom-to-be will get a prenatal massage and dad gets a cigar wrapped in pink or blue ribbon
34. Not only had Ang Chan attacked and looted Prachin Buri, turning its people into slaves, but he also refused to give Maha Chakkraphat a white elephant he had requested, rejecting even this token of submission to Siam.
35. The circular plaque is formed of a triple circle of lotus leaves in gold, red and green, within a blue circlet with pearls a richly Caparisoned white elephant on a gold ground, the whole surmounted by the jewelled gold pagoda crown of Siam; the collar is formed of alternate white elephants, red, blu