Italian | English |
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elefante noun {m} | elephant [elephants](mammal) |
elefante bianco noun {m} | white elephant(mammal) |
elefante marino noun {m} | elephant seal [elephant seals](mammal of the genus Mirounga) |
elefante nella stanza noun | elephant in the room(problem that is obvious but ignored) |
elefantessa noun {f} | cow [cows](female of various species of mammal) |
come un elefante in una cristalleria adjective | like a bull in a china shop(clumsy, aggressive) |
come un elefante in una cristalleria adverb | like a bull in a china shop(clumsily, aggressively) |
fare di una mosca un elefante verb | make a mountain out of a molehill(to treat a problem as greater than it is) |
squalo elefante noun {m} | basking shark [basking sharks](Cetorhinus maximus) |
toporagno elefante noun {m} | elephant shrew(Any member of the order Macroscelidea) |