Tag: white elephant
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Grey rhino
WotD: Grey Rhino The English language has various idioms referring to African animals. White elephant, stick your head in the sand (ostrich) and grey rhinos, to name a few. Today, we’re looking at grey rhinos. A grey rhino is a highly probable, obvious, major event that we are ignoring or for which we are not…
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Boondoggle
WotD: Boondoggle Boondoggle is a word you’ll often hear used in political debates and newspaper commentary on political decisions. Before we get into the matter, I should explain that a boondoggle is a large, useless and expensive thing constructed using public money; it’s a white elephant. No country, political party or politician has a monopoly…
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Up in the air
Idiom: Up in the air Decisions, decisions, decisions we all have to make; some are harder than others, and most of them are up in the air. What can we do about it? Making decisions is like death and taxes: inevitable. One of the main challenges with making decisions is the knock-on effect. Our decision affects all…
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White elephant
WotD: White elephant Perhaps your first thought is that you have never seen a white elephant. I’m here to tell you that you have and you’ve seen them more than once. If you’ve never been to a zoo, you have seen a white elephant – perhaps more than once. White elephants are expensive things that have no useful purpose.…
