Give the cold shoulder - in the past, an uninvited guest to a
dinner will be given the meat of the lamb shoulder which is
cold.
Pretzels-Monks will give them to children as a reward in the past,
the pretzel looks like two hands praying
sacked- in the past when a toolman was sacked, he will be given a
SACK to put his tools before leaving.
white elephants- in the past during the era of the siam kingdom,
the king gave away his white elephants, they were of no use and
still had to be taken care of.