The elephant in the room dominating Emily Schwartz’s latest play is no metaphor but an actual elephant (OK, mechanical elephant) — and if that doesn’t tell you something about this ...

The metaphor I'd use is that they are a perfect ... McClellan calls him and the young men like him the elephant in the room when it comes to discussion about racism and violence.

The expression “the elephant in the room” is used as a metaphor to represent something that’s obviously there, but not talked about. It can be within a group of people, between friends ...

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Alexandra Burke made a comment about bringing the phrase ‘elephant in the room’ to the UK in 2012 ... She told the hosts: ‘It’s really a metaphor. I was actually going through a situation ...