elephants' graveyard

Definitions

1. 1

   A place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when…

   A place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age, in order to die alone.

2. 2

   A place where lost objects or people end up, and from which there is no escape.

   • 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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