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.