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ловушка белого слонаelephant trap (Данный термин более относится к шахматам, приводится такое определение: "In chess, a trap in the Queen's Gambit Declined, in which white, at first appearing to be up a queen, ends up down a pawn as black's king's bishop checks, forcing white to discard his own queen." Словосочетание также употребляется в общественно-политическом контексте, например: "Britain is leaving the European Union. The journey, however, will be complex and perilous, beset by wrong turnings, chicanes and elephant traps." (The Economist). В данном или похожем контексте определяется как "not getting into issues that are not of much importance". andreylav)