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Pages in category "Metaphors referring to elephants" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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.,
Metaphors referring to elephants (9 P) F. ... Pages in category "Metaphors referring to animals" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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 ...
The elephant is viewed in both positive and negative lights in similar fashion as humans in various forms of literature. In fact, Pliny the Elder praised the beast in his Naturalis Historia as one that is closest to a human in sensibilities. [55] The elephant's different connotations clash in Ivo Andrić's novella The Vizier's Elephant.
Elephants have massive ears to help regulate their body temperature. They have huge blood vessels in their ears. The blood vessels are large and quite visible on the backs of the elephant’s ears.
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA CHOBE NATIONAL PARK, Botswana (AP) - No sign of an elephant in all of two minutes, a tourist teased a guide at Botswana's Chobe National Park, home to tens of thousands of ...
In Thailand, due to the tourism and logging industry, the elephant population has severely dropped, and those who still are around endure severe cruelty.Such is the story of Mare Noi, an elephant ...