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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