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单词 the elephant in the room
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the elephant in the room

A major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion: they’ve steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates...
  • I also think the Small decisions are interesting because they completely avoid the elephant in the room: the Second Amendment.
  • But the Iraq issue was the elephant in the room, the issue that the two leaders could not ignore.
  • It's the elephant in the room that everybody avoids talking about, isn't it?
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