pet aversion
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Even in those early days, when he was scarcely known, and that favorably rather than otherwise, he had imagined himself the pet aversion of the comfortable classes.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
"To each his sufferings, all are men," he replied in the sweet sad tones that seemed natural to him: "each has his pet aversion."
From Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
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
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