{"id":339889,"date":"2025-10-01T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/the-elephant-in-the-room-with-examples-use-idioms\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:18:00","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room-with-examples-use-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/the-elephant-in-the-room-with-examples-use-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in the room with examples &#8211; Use Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8216;the elephant in the room&#8217; refers to a significant, obvious problem or issue that everyone is aware of but no one wants to discuss because it is uncomfortable or potentially embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/useidioms.com\/the-elephant-in-the-room\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/useidioms.com\/the-elephant-in-the-room<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8216;the elephant in the room&#8217; refers to a significant, obvious problem or issue that everyone is aware of but no one wants to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}