the elephant in the room
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
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An obvious and important problem that everyone is aware of but nobody wants to discuss.
Nobody mentioned the looming redundancies, and the elephant in the room hung over the whole meeting.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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