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The elephant in the room (also elephant in the living room, elephant in the corner, elephant on the dinner table, elephant in the kitchen, horse in the corner, etc.) is an English idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored. It is based on the fact that an elephant in a small room would be impossible to overlook. A white elephant For other uses, see White elephant (disambiguation). ...
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It sometimes is used to refer to a question or problem that very obviously stands to reason, but which is ignored for the convenience of one or more involved parties. The idiom also implies a value judgment that the issue should be discussed openly. A value judgment is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, based on a particular set of values or on a particular value system. ...
The idiom is commonly used in addiction recovery terminology to describe the reluctance of friends and family of an addicted person to discuss the person's problem, thus aiding the person's denial. Heroin bottle An addiction is a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individuals health, mental state or social life. ...
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The idiom is also occasionally invoked as a "pink elephant", possibly in reference to alcohol abuse, or for no other reason than that a pink elephant would be more visible than a normal elephant. The expression pink elephants can mean: Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by delirium tremens. ...
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The term is often used to describe a political hot potato that involves a social taboo, such as racism, which everyone understands to be an issue but which no one is willing to admit. This article is about cultural prohibitions in general, for other uses, see Taboo (disambiguation). ...
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Film The title of Alan Clarke's 1989 short television film Elephant was a reference to this phrase. The elephant in the room in this case was The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In an attempt to illustrate the core of the problem, Clarke's film stripped away all dialogue and plot, and was essentially a series of unrelated shootings. [1] Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 - 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. ...
Elephant is a 1989 short film directed by Alan Clarke. ...
For other uses, see Troubles (disambiguation) and Trouble. ...
Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...
Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant, which is named after the Clarke film, places the idiom in the context of a Columbine-style high school shooting—although this was apparently inadvertent, as Van Sant apparently believed Clarke was referring to the fable of the blind men and an elephant, each perceiving a different object. [2] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Movie poster for Elephant Elephant (2003) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, an account of a school shooting in fictional Watt High School, in Portland, Oregon. ...
The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado near Denver and Littleton. ...
The Columbine High shooters caught on a security camera during their rampage. ...
The story of the blind men and an elephant appears to have originated in India, but its original source is debated. ...
Literature Terry Kettering wrote a poem called Elephant in the Room which deals with the subject of grief. It has been suggested that Anticipatory Grief be merged into this article or section. ...
Political columnist Ryan Sager entitled his book about the conflict between the Christian right and Libertarians for control of the United States' Republican Party "The Elephant in the Room," a play on both the English idiom and the Republicans' elephant symbol. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box: The Christian...
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Music On the Pet Shop Boys album Fundamental, the song "I made my excuses and left", Tennant and Lowe use the lyrics "A silence filled the room, awkward as an elephant" to describe the moment a man walks in on his lover with another man. Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop/pop music grammy-nominated duo, consisting of Neil Tennant who provides main vocals, keyboards and very occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals. ...
Fundamental is the sixteenth album, the ninth of entirely new music, by the British band Pet Shop Boys. ...
There is a music group called "Elephants in the Room" that performs songs about topics which make people uncomfortable.[citation needed]
The New York City based band Rider has a song "Elephant" on their album "The March" in which vocalist Brooke Gengras sings "If it were up to me it'd be you and me in the room with the elephant". The song is about her not being able to have a relationship with someone despite the obvious love the two of them have for each other. This is due to "the weight that I carry with me, my heaviest memory", another elephant reference (memory like an elephant/the obvious weight of the gigantic animal).
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