white elephant

I dare say he thought the gift horse was something of a white elephant.

"It's sure a white elephant we've got on our hands," laughed Thad.

Wherefore, what offering could be so meet as that of a white elephant?

They say the Government has got something very like a white elephant in that vast pile.

Oddly enough, I had no difficulty in getting rid of my white elephant of a farm.

I have caught my white elephant, but what am I to do with him?

The Order of the White Elephant, founded in 1861, is in five classes.

If thou hast a white elephant, be comforted—somewhere there is a zoo.

The hotel has been a "white elephant" because it is too fine for the city.

But they soon did as asked, producing the white elephant skin.