A herd of them is, in essence, one incomprehensibly massive elephant: a somewhat loosely bound and yet intricately interconnected, tensile organism.

Amongst the varied terrain of dense woodland, oxbow pools and open grassy plains lurk beasts of all shapes and sizes, from massive elephants to pesky tsetse flies.

Mayor Scott King received much scrutiny for his decision to fund such a stadium; the city of Gary has had a history of mayors who have funded massive white elephants.

And once we have all paid for this massive white elephant, who the hell is going to be able to afford to travel on it?

Titanic owners' massive white elephant lumbers on to eBay 2.

That's one way of dealing with it but it avoids a massive elephant in the room.

Incidentally a massive elephant ( based on the Sultan's Elephant show seen in London in 2006 ) will probably feature in Boyle's opening ceremony.

The women downstairs had now finished unpacking - including Jeralyn's massive stuffed elephant, Jumbo, and Doreen's Baby Kermit, left over from a McDonald's promotion.

To serve as Achilles' personal transport, Zeus also created a massive and powerful elephant named Mysia who has two trunks, two mouths, three glowing eyes, an impenetrable hide, and the ability to walk on air.

It really is a massive white elephant.