Meaning of elephants' graveyard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age, in order to die alone.
2. A place where lost objects or people end up, and from which there is no escape.
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Examples

“John F. Williams, Paul Clifford. low rate, on the other hand may mean⟳ that the legal department is an "elephants' graveyard," from which no escape⟳ is possible.”

“I actually wonder⟳ for a moment if my kind has an elephants' graveyard where those of us free to do so withdraw⟳ as our lives dwindle down to the ninth one's final moments.”

“I suppose⟳ every garden has one: an elephants' graveyard of discarded labels.”

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