pet aversion
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Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original prot�g�, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill.
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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.
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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.
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The cause of silver may be my "pet aversion" as a political theory, but I have all respect for the honest multitude who espoused it.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
We had another teacher whose pet aversion was match heads.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.