What is a pink elephant?

Answer 1

euphemism for drunken hallucination

Answer 2

Pink elephant: An illusion, usually associated with intoxication. "Seeing pink elephants".

White elephant: Oddity that someone gives away as a gag gift, usually something with a very limited use or appeal.

The elephant in the room: An issue everyone is aware of, yet ignores despite it being right in front of them.

Answer 3

People say if you are really drunk, you see pink elephants, However, when I was 4, I had surgery and my mother says I woke up laughing at the pink elephants dancing on the ceiling!

Answer 4

a WHITE elephant is something that isn't good for anything. Pink elephants are just kinda cute.

Answer 5

A pink elephant is something people were said to see when they were very drunk or going through DTs (Delirium tremens -- cold turkey withdrawal from alcohol by a previously heavy drinker).

A white elephant is something that has no value to you and you'd be relieved to unload it onto someone else.

Answer 6

The expression pink elephants can mean:-

"Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by delirium tremens.
Jack London, describing one sort of alcoholic in the autobiographical John Barleycorn, writes that he "is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers."
A reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941 Disney animated classic Dumbo. Dumbo, having taken a drink of water from a bucket spiked with moonshine, begins to hallucinate singing and dancing "Pink Elephants on Parade."
Jazz musician Sun Ra performed this Disney song often with his band the Arkestra in the 1970's, and said that he did so because humanity needed calming to prevent nuclear war.
In The Simpsons episode "D'oh-in' in the Wind", Barney Gumble, under the influence of a drug, has a hallucination about a monster. He quickly drinks a beer, which causes a pink elephant to appear and destroy the monster.
The phrase is also used in Maakies, a comic strip by Tony Millionaire, in a strip entitled "It's The Early Bird! Run!!"
A slight variation on the pink elephant appeared in a Looney Toons cartoon, in which a staggering drunk spots a tiny (but grey) elephant, looks at his watch, and proclaims to the elephant "You're late!... the last time, he was pink!"
"Pink Elephants" may also be used as a slang term for LSD, as it was a pattern used on blotter paper in the late 90's. no doubt inspired by the above.
"Pink elephants" is one common name of the North American plant Pedicularis groenlandica (family Scrophulariaceae) because of the shape of its flowers.
"Pink elephant" is one version of "the elephant in the room" (something that everyone is aware of but won't speak of).
Pink Elephants, The. An international group of political activists dedicated to advancing the dual causes of Atlanticism and sexual progressivism across the globe.
"Pink elephant" is also a derogatory term for Log Cabin Republicans (gay Republicans). The symbol of the U.S. Republican party is the elephant, and pink is a symbol of homosexuality (as in the pink triangle) and a stereotypically effeminate version of the color red, used to signify the party since 2000.
Pink Elephant is a Dutch record label, well known in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shocking Blue is one of their artists.
Pink Elephant is a Dutch IT company, which introduced the best practices ITIL and Prince2 into the Dutch IT market. Although Pink Elephant is now renamed and part of Getronics PinkRoccade, its Canadian subsidiary still carries the original and best-known name, and is a leader in the North American IT process-management market.

Answer 7

umm drgoodhi...thats a white elephant....

A pink Elephant is a term used for hallucinations

Answer 8

a pink elepant refers to children at their preoperational where there pyshics on biology sees the materialistic and the living organism as one and the same . in this instance they know the fabric to be pink and they assume the elephant to be pink as well

Answer 9

in the Kings County Ca. drunk tank they are the little animals painted along the bottom border, 17 of them in all trunk to tail all the way around. (very funny Kings County Sherriff)

Answer 10

elephant that blushes...or in that one Simpsons episode, a political icon for gay cadidates...or a drunk haliucination

Answer 11

something a child colors in a book