white elephant

Anything short of that will probably leave us with another white elephant.

"Could I know a white elephant among all those people!"

The problem, from their point of view, was the hospital building itself, a white elephant.

When the white elephant died, he spent many years looking for another one.

You know what a white elephant of an island it is.

As the company's white elephants of recent years, they were not included in the commercial.

Who says it's a white elephant - is it not a school?

But it may yet prove to be something of a white elephant.

Leave you high and dry with this big white elephant of a house on your hands.

We've both agreed that this house is a bit of a white elephant.

They could be left with a lot of white elephants."

In the central hall are the bones of white elephants.

"It's like having this big white elephant in the middle of the living room, and everyone is walking around it."

A white elephant was said to have entered her side during a dream.

It is a white elephant I have got on my hands."

More spaces are needed at less cost not another white elephant office block.

"I feel like a white elephant has turned into a golden goose."

All that aside from how ugly the white elephant is.

"The houses look like white elephants compared to what's around them," he said.

Ah, you mean the girl by the white elephant stall?

If we do, then the law becomes the real white elephant."

The Shanghai system has been accused of being a white elephant.

The girl's reference to white elephants could be in regards to the baby.

The house was a bit of a white elephant.

But it had been a costly white elephant and too much for one owner, he said.