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
He was a capable man, however, despite his pet aversion, and there was concern in his voice when he spoke.
From Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer
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
Pat doesn't break her fast with the paying guest, however: she's an early bird, though her pet aversion is a worm.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
