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   White el·e·phant

   /ˌ(h)wīd ˈeləf(ə)nt/

   

   noun

   • 1. a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of: "a huge white elephant of a house that needed ten thousand spent on it"

   Word Origin from the story that the kings of Siam gave such animals as a gift to courtiers they disliked, in order to ruin the recipient by the great expense incurred in maintaining the animal.

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