a white elephant

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.

See also: elephant, white

Common Names:

Name	Gender	Pronounced	Usage
Elmira		el-MIR-ə	Literature
Zeru		-	Basque
OszkÁR		-	Hungarian
Zhanna		ZHAH-nah	Russian
Ave		AH-ve	Estonian
Peters		['pi:təz]

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