"elephants' graveyard" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "A place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age, in order to die alone."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1984, John F. Williams, Career Preparation and Opportunities in International Law, page 94",
          "text": "John F. Williams, Paul Clifford. low rate, on the other hand may mean that the legal department is an \"elephants' graveyard,\" from which no escape is possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat with an Emerald Eye: A Midnight Louie Mystery, page 56",
          "text": "I actually wonder for a moment if my kind has an elephants' graveyard where those of us free to do so withdraw as our lives dwindle down to the ninth one's final moments.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Katerine Swift, The Morville Year",
          "text": "I suppose every garden has one: an elephants' graveyard of discarded labels.",
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        "A place where lost objects or people end up, and from which there is no escape."
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        "(by extension) A place where lost objects or people end up, and from which there is no escape."
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        "A place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age, in order to die alone."
      ],
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        },
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          "text": "I suppose every garden has one: an elephants' graveyard of discarded labels.",
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