Sentences with phrase «white elephant»

Favorite holiday memory / memories: doing white elephant gift exchanges with friends — the presents and the process are always a riot!

Because a tower of white elephants in a room is just cool.

One of my favorite holiday memories was playing white elephant with some of my close girlfriends!

The cousins started doing white elephant played our own games too.

When oil gets scarce you'll be stuck with white elephant infrastructure.

As a matter of fact, I'll bet that white elephant again that you haven't ever found a single one of them elsewhere.

I had so much fun searching the internet for some quirky and funny white elephant gift ideas.

When I'm looking for the perfect white elephant gift, I look for one of a few different things.

He'll just want to talk adaptation and resilience and white elephants generally.

This scarf would also make a great birthday gift or white elephant gift for your family gathering!

Love the whale — love the stack of white elephants and love that you even have pretty pencils and pens.

While Fayemi spent the bond money for infrastructure development of the state, including major roads, street lightening, school renovation, government lodge / office, a civic centre, the Ikogosi warm spring resort and Ire Burnt Bricks Company, among others; Fayose had opted for white elephant projects including an airport and a flyover.

Are you a fan of white elephant parties?

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

Shuttered power plants can become white elephants.

Opening: Sunday, March 15, 5 pm Bar Olivino 899 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY C or G to Clinton / Washington Avenue station Organized by artist Michael Zahn, Bar Olivino is presents Hills Like White Elephants, a new bi-weekly series featuring the work of the following artists: Mark Dagley Sunday, March 15 Jeremy Blakeslee Sunday, March 29 Christine Krol Sunday, April 5 Nora Griffin Sunday, April 26 Jeffrey Schad & Vincent Szarek Sunday, May 10 Timothy Buckwalter Sunday, May -LSB-...]

If companies choose to sink billions into unconventional plays that demand high oil prices to turn a profit, then shareholders better hope those mega-projects don't turn into white elephants down the road.

But in neighbouring states like Qatar, there are concerns that some of its megaprojects could end up as white elephants.

«ID cards are an expensive white elephant that risk making us less - not more safe.

What critics said: «It's at once minimalist and maximalist, cynical and dopey, a big - boy white elephant art film that is actually a lean and mean suspense set - piece machine.»

«It's like the big white elephant sitting in the middle of the room, yet nobody wants to see it.»

Imagine walking into a room with walls covered from floor to ceiling in white elephant tusks.

Keep that in mind for your next white elephant gift exchange; I guarantee you'll be the only one who's bringing the Dengue Virus as a gift.

In keeping with the white Christmas dinner party theme, I asked guests to bring white elephant gifts that we could exchange.

That cute little white elephant from HomeGoods holds our phones while they charge.

Surely instead of a giant white horse, he should have made a giant white elephant artwork... called Economy.

The authors go on to illustrate that the remaining 20 cents of loan monies are used to finance white elephant projects, «ghost» projects» (i.e. fictitious roads, schools, soldiers, etc.), government salaries, ineffective development and infrastructural projects or it leaves the country through capital flight within the coming years — leaving little to nothing of actual development monies for the citizenry of these countries.

Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.

In the meantime, we'd rather sit out the next move down and not risk the squeeze and instead start thinking about what the next white elephant nation building / wealth expropriating capex binge China will come up with next.

In a little more than a year's time he turns the order's latest white elephant, an estate in rural Minnesota that the order hopes to convert into a retreat, into a going concern.

-- Wikipedia A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdonsome possession of which its owner can not dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth.

It makes me sick that so many people praise this man and completely ignore the huge white elephant in the room.

For example: A: I just saw a Siamese white elephant delivering my mail.

Arsenal will then lose income, stadium will become an empty white elephant and Arsenal will decline.

Gold and white elephant scarf ($ 24.95).

I remember it as a comfortable and friendly place offering perhaps a dozen rooms in a somewhat run - down 19th century robber - baron's white elephant summer house, ideally situated virtually on the miles - long beach in the Provincial Park.

The Fisher Price Soother Elephant is a hard, durable white elephant with a handle.

The regime of the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was sturdy, and it had enough money to pay for its extravagances, build the usual white elephant infrastructure projects, and co-opt the constituencies necessary for its survival.

There is often criticism from some commentators that in this age of austerity, the Falkland Islands is a financial white elephant.

It will be interesting to see if the GDS can then be utilised to its full potential, or if it becomes another government technological white elephant.

In his State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did, indeed, tout the same sort of white elephant already being chased by states and cities across the country.

... these Labour ministers are pressing ahead with their vast white elephant, their plastic poll tax, twenty Millennium Domes rolled into one giant catastrophe in the making.»

«Making reference to projects like «the multibillion naira Opon Imo, a contract that was allegedly awarded to or co-ordinated by the governor's son, N20.9 billion garment factory, RLG factory, white elephant Osun Airport that has gulped billions of Osun people's money, it is unfathomable how Aregbesola is able to sleep in the night knowing full well that his government is running on deceit.

According to him, state governors today are busy building billion naira airports, government houses and other white elephant while their people live in abject poverty and squalor.