Idiom
baby elephant in the room
Meaning
An obvious but mostly inconsequential issue.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We should talk about the baby elephant in the room.”
“The minor typo on the menu was the baby elephant in the room that everyone noticed but nobody mentioned.”
“While the committee focused on the major budget crisis, the baby elephant in the room remained the outdated office coffee machine that everyone quietly disliked.”
Examples
simple
“We should talk about the baby elephant in the room.”
contextual
“The minor typo on the menu was the baby elephant in the room that everyone noticed but nobody mentioned.”
complex
“While the committee focused on the major budget crisis, the baby elephant in the room remained the outdated office coffee machine that everyone quietly disliked.”
Origin
baby + elephant in the room
Key words
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