an elephant is an elephant , an elephant never breaks its promises
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∙ 12y agoThe idiom "elephant in the room" is not as common as the idiom "800-pound gorilla in the room", but both have similar connotations. The "elephant" applies to some dominant element, situation, or eventuality that everyone is aware of but that is either ignored or barely acknowledged. For example, shareholders at a meeting could be discussing the fine points of a merger, knowing all too well that the government was threatening to shut down the operations of one of the companies involved. An example sentence : "The elephant in the room at the teacher's conference was the new mayor's promise to remove inefficient teachers." (see the related question)
The elephant was not given a special name on the show. It was simply "elephant."
There are 3 elephant species in the genus loxodonta(African Elephant): African Elephant, African Bush Elephant, and African Forest ElephantThere is only 1 elephant species in the genus Elephas maximus (Asian Elephant), but it can be divided into 4 sub-species.
The Asian Elephant has the smallest ears, of the current existing species (African Bush Elephant, African Forest Elephant, and Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant). However, when alive, the Mammoths had the smallest ears.
The binomial nomenclature for an elephant is Elephas maximus for the Asian elephant and Loxodonta africana for the African elephant.
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Promise to Promise was created on 1996-07-24.
The elephant was not given a special name on the show. It was simply "elephant."
The African elephant is the larger of the two species.
The idiom "elephant in the room" is not as common as the idiom "800-pound gorilla in the room", but both have similar connotations. The "elephant" applies to some dominant element, situation, or eventuality that everyone is aware of but that is either ignored or barely acknowledged. For example, shareholders at a meeting could be discussing the fine points of a merger, knowing all too well that the government was threatening to shut down the operations of one of the companies involved. An example sentence : "The elephant in the room at the teacher's conference was the new mayor's promise to remove inefficient teachers." (see the related question)
Elephant
The possessive for the noun elephant is elephant's.
The elephant is the symbol of the Republican political party of the United States of America.
There are 3 elephant species in the genus loxodonta(African Elephant): African Elephant, African Bush Elephant, and African Forest ElephantThere is only 1 elephant species in the genus Elephas maximus (Asian Elephant), but it can be divided into 4 sub-species.
The Asian Elephant has the smallest ears, of the current existing species (African Bush Elephant, African Forest Elephant, and Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant). However, when alive, the Mammoths had the smallest ears.
The binomial nomenclature for an elephant is Elephas maximus for the Asian elephant and Loxodonta africana for the African elephant.
Breaking a promise is when you tell someone you are going to do something, and you PROMISE you will do it. Breaking a promise is not "fulfilling" it, or "doing" it.