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white elephant
Artık sahibinin işine yaramayan bir şey; vaktiyle işe yarayan fakat şimdi dert olan bir şey
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değerli ama işe yaramayan mülk
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gereksiz eşya
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masraflı hediye
white elephant
büyük boy kâğıt
white elephant
gereksiz şeyler
white elephant
kimseye yar olmayan şey
white elephant
beyaz fil
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white elephant
An ornament etc that is unwanted or is a financial burden; an unprofitable investment
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An albino elephant
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A possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of. Origin: from the story that the kings of Siam gave such animals as a gift to courtiers they disliked, in order to ruin the recipient by the great expense incurred in maintaining the animal
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expensive investment that turns out to be useless and cannot be gotten rid of; object which is not needed, unnecessary item; species of elephant that is abnormally light
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albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive
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Something that is so costly to operate that the potential for profit is quite low
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Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession
white elephant
albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia
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disapproval If you describe something as a white elephant, you mean that it is a waste of money because it is completely useless. The pavilion has become a £14 million steel and glass white elephant. something that is completely useless, although it may have cost a lot of money (From the supposed practice of the King of Siam, who gave to people he did not like a white elephant, which cost a very large amount of money to keep)
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unwanted object, especially something that was expensive to acquire
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a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive
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