pet aversion
Example Sentences
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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
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
Adams, Samuel, a pet aversion of the Hartford wits, 99, 100.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
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 Holman Day
