🐘 Elephant
"Elephant in the room"
Meaning
A big problem that everyone knows about but avoids discussing.
About the elephant
Elephants are large, hard to overlook, and reputed to have long memories, which shapes idioms about obvious problems and lasting recall.
Example sentence
Everyone talked about dessert, but the elephant in the room was the unpaid bill.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
A big problem that everyone knows about but avoids discussing.