(Before you stop reading, at least give me credit for sticking with the same animal category of metaphors ... When they see that elephant in the room, everything else pales in comparison.

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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As the campaign’s final month promises to suck up most of the satirical oxygen in the room, a handful of metaphors are coming ... birds of prey circling the elephant circus: In a similar vein ...

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 ...

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 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 X Factor star accidentally took credit for bringing the phrase 'elephant in the room' to the UK. Speaking at the time, Alexandra said: “It's a metaphor. I was going through a situation last ...