“Something I have heard only since coming to this country is the phrase ‘the elephant in the room.’ Have you heard that phrase, Buck?” “You mean about people who get together and don’t talk about the obvious, like the fact that one of them has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness?” “Exactly. So, let us talk about the elephant in the room and be done with it, and then we can move on. All right?”
That was a terrible way to phrase your analogy, Buck
