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hobbyhorse

[hob-ee-hawrs] / ˈhɒb iˌhɔrs /
NOUN
rocking horse
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In 2017, the National Institutes of Health asked Hotez to meet with Kennedy to move him off the hobbyhorse of a vaccine-autism link.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

He has gone on to establish regular, silly characters - a romantic poet, a highwayman with a hobbyhorse, and a running story that sends up the allure of the archetypal aloof hero.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

As you wind the path, the gaze of Jeff Koons’s “Split-Rocker” — a massive, grinning hobbyhorse head displayed on the hillside a la Rio de Janeiro’s “Christ the Redeemer” — is omnipresent.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2021

One possible way — and I know this is my hobbyhorse — is to pay the players.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016

Simon grinned and grabbed one of the wooden baking paddles, which he proceeded to ride like a hobbyhorse ’round the bakehouse.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood