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The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") [2] [3] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is ...
Burlesque metaphor is an amusing, overstated or grotesque figure of speech, usually a comparison or exemplification. [1] ... There is an elephant in the room.
Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.
Blanchett, 55, is in a sunny hotel room in London, dressed in a blood-red power suit, her hair cut into a sharp blonde bob. Maddin, 68, is in the dark shadows of his home office in Winnipeg, Canada.
Garth Brooks is seemingly speaking out for the first time after a lawsuit was filed against him alleging that he sexually assaulted and battered his former hair and makeup artist.
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,
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