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
Zlata	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Russian
Kamil (2)	KAH-meel (Polish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish
Deorwine	-	Anglo-Saxon
Brennan	['brenən]
Yuliana	-	Russian, Bulgarian, Indonesian
Saifullah	-	Arabic