The elephant in the room no one wanted to see was money.
Throughout our deliberations, the elephant in the room was the 60,000 pensioners who had lost all or part of their pension.
The metaphor has been mixed, on occasion, with the metaphor of the elephant in the room.
The sad elephant, sometimes also called the elephant in the room, is a large elephant with a tear dropping from its eye.
The anchor responded that the caller had pointed out the elephant in the room that, until then, the media was hesitant to suggest.
The truth then becomes the elephant in the room; no matter how obvious it is, the people most affected pretend to others and to themselves that it is not so.
