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white elephant – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:09:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png white elephant – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Interesting Words and Expressions – White Elephant https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/interesting-words-and-expressions-white-elephant/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:10:20 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1402 Continue reading Interesting Words and Expressions – White Elephant ]]> White Elephant – a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money, a valuable but burdensome possession.

Origin: from the story that in Siam (Thailand) the king would give a white elephant as a present to someone that he didn’t like. The person would have to spend all their money on looking after the rare animal.

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