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
"Will each officer present," he said, "kindly name his pet aversion among his fellow-creatures?"
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
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 Lynd, Robert
A “jill-poke,” a pet aversion of drivers, is a log with one end lodged on the bank and the other thrust out into the stream.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
