The elephant in the room phrase.
There s an elephant in the room meaning.
The expression elephant in the room usually the elephant in the room or the elephant in the living room 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 or is personally socially or politically.
Chicago that s an old indian word meaning get that elephant out of your room.
What does the elephant in the room expression mean.
The elephant in the room definition.
An elephant in the room definition.
An obvious truth that is deliberately ignored by everyone in a situation meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
Paddy didn t need pointing it out to know it was there and lindsay coates s column about.
Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.
The first reference to the phrase that i have found is in the charleston gazette july 1952.
The meaning if not the exact wording dates from at least the 1950s and is possibly some years older than that.
But it was like an elephant in the drawing room.