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Rogue elephant   /roʊg ˈɛləfənt/   Listen
Rogue elephant

noun
1.
A wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd.





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"Rogue elephant" Quotes from Famous Books



... frontier, building roads, and relieving famines and minimizing earthquakes, and all that sort of thing that one does do on frontiers. He could talk sense to a peevish cobra in fifteen native languages, and probably knew what to do if you found a rogue elephant on your croquet-lawn; but he was shy and diffident with women. I told my mother privately that he was an absolute woman-hater; so, of course, she laid herself out to flirt all she ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki
... same species and it pleased my whim to symbolise them as a mastodon and a rogue elephant. Morrison, the dreaded agent and operator, was unquestionably the finer creature. He moved more precisely and with a sense of wieldy power. His phrases cut where Vogelstein's merely smote. His bigness had something genial about ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather


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