🐘 Elephant
"The 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 praised the dinner, but nobody mentioned the elephant in the room: the kitchen ceiling was leaking.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
A big problem that everyone knows about but avoids discussing.