a white elephant

something that has cost a lot of money but has no useful purpose The town's new leisure centre, recently completed at a cost of ten million pounds, seems likely to prove a white elephant.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nadab	-	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Joachim	zho-a-KEEM (French), YO-ah-khim (German), yo-AH-khim (German), yaw-AH-kheem (Polish), JO-ə-kim (English)	French, German, Polish, Judeo-Christian Legend
Alexia	[ə'leksis]
Timotha	TIM-ə-thə	English (Rare)
Taide	-	Italian (Rare)
Thanos	-	Greek