White elephant (disambiguation)
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"White elephant" is a phrase for an unwanted or unwieldy item or project.
White elephant may also refer to:
- White elephant (pachyderm), a pachyderm from which the phrase was coined.
- White Elephant 1 and White Elephant 2, two secure document destruction facilities owned by the National Security Agency.
- A "White elephant stall" in the UK, Australia and New Zealand at a fair or market has unusual or miscellaneous items for sale which have been donated, as they were "white elephants" to their owners.
- a metaphor for an fetus in utero in Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants".
- White elephant gift exchange, a winter holiday party game.
- a chain of sporting good stores located in Spokane, WA.
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