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  2. White elephant - Wikipedia

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    A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855. A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, scheme, business venture ...

  3. White elephant gift exchange - Wikipedia

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    A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [ 3 ]

  4. 25 White Elephant Gifts So Good, We’re Having Trouble ... - AOL

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    Let's talk about the ultimate white elephant gift paradox – when you find something so ridiculously perfect that parting with it feels like giving away the last slice of pizza. These 25 gifts ...

  5. Category:Metaphors referring to elephants - Wikipedia

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    White elephant gift exchange This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 18:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...

  6. The best White Elephant gifts that everyone will be jostling for

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    White Elephant, Dirty Santa, Yankee Swap. It's the Christmas gift exchange that goes by a hundred names, with thousands of different rules that vary family to family. But whatever you call this ...

  7. How do you play white elephant? The gift exchange rules ... - AOL

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    A "white elephant" is generally something that's expensive to maintain and hard to sell or get rid of — more trouble than it's worth, in other words. The phrase is widely regarded coming from a ...

  8. 21 White Elephant Gifts That Prove Good Things Come In Cheap ...

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    White elephant parties are the wild west of gift exchanges – where chaos reigns and social boundaries crumble faster than holiday cookies. These aren't your grandma's predictable presents. We're ...

  9. White elephant (animal) - Wikipedia

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    A royal white elephant, as depicted in a Thai painting. A white elephant (also albino elephant) [1] is a rare kind of elephant, but not a distinct species. Although often depicted as snow white, their skin is typically a soft reddish-brown, turning a light pink when wet. [2] They have fair eyelashes and toenails.