The Elephant in the Corner

This was a phrase I had never come across… our friends visiting from the States exchanged the Elephant for a gorilla, the idiom was the same. It got me thinking…. in our College, what was the elephant? Did we have one? After some consideration, I thought not. So I looked closer to home, our department? Again, nothing obivous. So I am pleased to say, no wildlife, elephant, gorilla or other.