pet aversion
Example Sentences
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My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scotland was always for Johnson a pet target that he waggishly exploited as a pet aversion; it produced endless gibes on tour as well as at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Hunt well knew, her pet aversion was people who lugged mispronounced French phrases into their conversation under the impression that they imparted a piquant and graceful effect.
From Potts's Painless Cure 1898 by Edward Bellamy
Swinburne is less amusing when he is exalting the Elizabethans than when he is cleaving the skull of a pet aversion.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
"This way, my lord," Stubbs replied, turning with suspicious readiness--the bats were his pet aversion.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
