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«They are having a white elephant sale at the school next week.
На следующей неделе у них в школе будут продаваться старые ненужные вещи.»


«Bob's father-in-law has given him an old Rolls Royce, but it's a real white elephant. He has no place to park it and can't afford the gas for it.»

«Those antique vases Aunt Mary gave me are white elephants. They're ugly and I have no place to put them.»

«The town's new leisure centre, recently completed at a cost of ten million pounds, seems likely to prove a white elephant.»


«His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain one's gratitude, if indeed one does not feel bankrupt.»