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Can you guess “the elephant in the room”?
English idiom meaning: the elephant in the room. Hear it in 8 accents: Yorkshire, Scouse, Irish, Russian, Cockney, South African, Northern Irish and New Zealand. There is no real elephant! the elephant in the room = a big problem that everyone can see, but nobody wants to talk about. address = talk about a problem and deal with it Use it in real life. “Nobody said it in the meeting, but the budget is the elephant in the room.” “Can we address the elephant in the room?” And which accent was the hardest?
What it means
- 1 idiom, 8 accents Can we address the elephant in the room?
- What does it mean? the elephant in the room a big problem everyone sees, but nobody talks about
- address = talk about and deal with We need to address this problem.
- Use it in real life The budget is the elephant in the room.
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