elephant in the room

短语

房间里的大象

发音

AU

词形变化

elephants in the room 复数 elephants in the room

别名

elephant in the corner

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.

    房间里的大象

    习语

    Near-synonyms: 800-pound gorilla, gorilla in the room, 800-pound gorilla in the room

词源

Likely US origin, or possibly from Ivan Andreyevich Krylov's 1814 fable, The Inquisitive Man, which tells of a man going to a museum and noticing all sorts of things apart from an elephant.

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