"elephant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

elephant sustantivo

sustantivo + elephant
Kolokacji: 10
baby elephant • war elephant • bull elephant • circus elephant • forest elephant • ...
elephant + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 50
Elephant Man • elephant seal • elephant dung • elephant tusk • elephant population • ...
elephant + verbo
Kolokacji: 32
elephant comes • elephant goes • elephant lives • elephant dies • elephant stands • ...
verbo + elephant
Kolokacji: 10
see elephants • include elephants • elephant called • feature elephants • kill an elephant • ...
adjetivo + elephant
Kolokacji: 37
white elephant • African elephant • Asian elephant • wild elephant • Indian elephant • ...
1. white elephant = drogi, ale niepotrzebny przedmiot white elephant
  • The problem, from their point of view, was the hospital building itself, a white elephant.
  • Leave you high and dry with this big white elephant of a house on your hands.
  • "It's like having this big white elephant in the middle of the living room, and everyone is walking around it."
  • You know what a white elephant of an island it is.
  • When the white elephant died, he spent many years looking for another one.
  • We've both agreed that this house is a bit of a white elephant.
  • Anything short of that will probably leave us with another white elephant.
  • But it may yet prove to be something of a white elephant.
  • Who says it's a white elephant - is it not a school?
  • As the company's white elephants of recent years, they were not included in the commercial.
4. wild elephant = dziki słoń wild elephant
preposición + elephant
Kolokacji: 13
of elephants • with elephants • for elephants • to elephants • in elephants • ...

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