White elephant gift exchange
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A white elephant gift exchange, Yankee swap or Dirty Santa is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is
A man "steals" a gift in a white elephant gift exchange, while its previous owner is reluctant to relinquish it.
Woman triumphantly showing a pineapple at a white elephant gift exchange at a Minnesota Roller Girls holiday party.
White elephant
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A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage,
White elephant gift exchange
…practical or items that will be wanted by players. The game is played by opening gifts or "stealing" items that other participants have opened. The term white elephant refers to an extravagant, impractical gift that cannot be easily disposed of. The phrase is said to come from a perspective about the historic practice…
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855
Boothtown Aqueduct, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia