where does the expression elephant in the room come from
Elephant in the room It is based on the idea/thought that something as conspicuous as an elephant can appear to be overlooked in codified social interactions, and that the sociology/psychology of repression also operates on the macro scale.
Religio The Latin term
Paris Peace Accords
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom:
In situ In chemistry, in situ typically means "in the reaction mixture."
Hundreds and thousands Hundreds and thousands used incorrectly instead of hundreds of thousands to mean "an indefinite but emphatically large number".