white elephant

Summary

white elephant is a phraseme^[1]. It draws 852 Wikipedia views per month (phraseme category, ranking #2 of 12).^[2]

Key Facts

• white elephant's image is recorded as The White Elephant, Punch 103.png^[3].
• white elephant's instance of is recorded as phraseme^[4].
• white elephant is named after white elephant^[5].
• white elephant's GND ID is recorded as 4128218-8^[6].
• white elephant's subclass of is recorded as transport infrastructure^[7].
• white elephant's subclass of is recorded as military unit^[8].
• white elephant's subclass of is recorded as property^[9].
• white elephant's said to be the same as is recorded as Boondoggle^[10].
• white elephant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/081vl^[11].
• white elephant's indigenous to is recorded as English^[12].
• white elephant's hashtag is recorded as GPII^[13].
• white elephant's Quora topic ID is recorded as White-Elephant-animal^[14].
• white elephant's Quora topic ID is recorded as White-Elephant^[15].
• white elephant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 51179597^[16].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for white elephant include it gift exchange^[17], a party game^[18], in United States^[19].

Why It Matters

white elephant draws 852 Wikipedia views per month (phraseme category, ranking #2 of 12).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]

Entities named for it include it gift exchange^[17], a party game^[18], in United States^[19].