noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
white elephant
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When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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And Marko went with them, riding on the largest elephant .
white
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?
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More spaces are needed at less cost not another white elephant office block.
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In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants .
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Its victims are usually poor folk made poorer by the white elephants their leaders have inflicted on them.
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Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
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There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
wild
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This was defeated by panthers who ate the foals, and by wild elephants on whose walk the buildings were sited.
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It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants - but only the day before yesterday, they were.
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These captives may even have been used to lure and help catch wild elephants of which there were then a great number.
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Today, though trapping still goes on, it is disappearing because there are not enough wild elephants to justify it.
young
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The young elephants threatened to flounder to a halt, and with them the flow of life-blood to Verdun.
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In the confusion and stampede that is bound to occur, the young elephants may easily get trampled or crushed.
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Like so many baby mammals, young elephants spend a great deal of their time playing.
■ NOUN
baby
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She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps, she thought miserably.
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Daphne discovered for instance, that baby elephants were unresponsive to many types of milk.
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Daphne says that many baby elephants arrive at the sanctuary in shock, having seen their entire extended family hacked to death.
grass
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He frowned and turned away, staring into a tall clump of elephant grass by the side of the track.
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My unit was in a large field covered mostly with elephant grass .
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When I hit the elephant grass , I just kept going.
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That elephant grass must have been 5 or 6 feet tall.
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The valley from the hill to the massif was all flat plains covered with elephant grass .
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Deep-blue skies blazed over the shrub-covered hills and valleys of elephant grass .
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I was out on the flank with my platoon, and to my right was some high elephant grass .
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It was the only way a dead man could be found in the tall elephant grass .
population
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And as the elephant population falls, so the price of ivory rises.
seal
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In autumn the elephant seals haul out to moult.
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Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals , why do they behave so differently?
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Few infant mammals grow as quickly as an elephant seal pup.
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Thus, bull elephant seals and red deer stags are big, armed, and dangerous.
■ VERB
save
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For new moves on saving the elephant , see pages 6 and 7.
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Daphne has laboured for years to save the elephant , as dedicated to her task as was Dian Fossey to her gorillas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Archaeologists divide the early inhabitants into elephant hunters and bison hunters.
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Each elephant is caparisoned in glittering gold, red, silver or blue cloth, studded with brilliants and lit with lamps.
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He rode on an elephant and on the Ferris wheel, taking only Amelia with him.
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His agents within the Imperial army managed to assassinate three of Dara's generals as they sat exposed on their elephants.
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It looked like a place where the elephants came to die.
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The explosions started as soon as the last elephant had shuffled out of sight.
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These countries are able to practise open trading because their elephant herds are now big enough to demand regular culling.