VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Elephant in the Room

Meaning:

A major problem that no one is talking about

Examples:

  • I hate to bring up the elephant in the room but I think you did a wonderful thing.
  • You know sometimes when there's an elephant in the room?
  • The elephant in the room lets out a mighty roar.
  • There's an elephant in the room, and its name is menopause.
  • The elephant in the room lets out a mighty roar.
  • The pattern holds, except for the elephant in the room.
  • Because the real elephant in the room here is fatphobia.
  • Well, and then there's the elephant in the room.
  • Ah, now we got another elephant in the room.
  • We still haven't talked about the elephant in the room.