Question of the Day #907

With Netanyahu's Return, U.S. Jewish Groups Choose to Ignore the Elephant in the Room

From the headline of this article at Haaretz.

  上記の文で、elephant in the roomの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "elephant in the room" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《the ～》〔誰もが認識しているが〕話したくない［口に出したくない・無視している］重要な問題［事実］

   

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

An obvious truth or fact, especially one regarded as embarrassing or undesirable, that is being intentionally ignored or left unaddressed.

   

Examples

• We all sat sipping our tea quietly, no one wanting to bring up the elephant in the room about Joel's expulsion from college.
• The incident has remained something of an elephant in the room within our family.
• I don't want to ask the question, but it is the big elephant in the room.
• Throughout our deliberations, the elephant in the room was the 60,000 pensioners who had lost all or part of their pension.
• The elephant in the room in all this is the role of the government. - The Guardian (2020)

   

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