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hobbyhorse

[hob-ee-hawrs] / ˈhɒb iˌhɔrs /
NOUN
rocking horse
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Never mind the crime issue or that favorite Trumpian hobbyhorse, immigration and the border.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, his hobbyhorse will be on the Supreme Court’s agenda, and it has drawn as much zealous backing as it has ferocious pushback.

From New York Times

“It is refreshingly free both of collegiate sentiment and — in John Updike’s memorable phrase — the dim rumble of hobbyhorses being ridden back and forth across the floor,” Washington Post book reviewer L.J.

From Washington Post

In another sign that Republican radicals are in the ascendance, McCarthy said he wants to impose limits on future U.S. aid to Ukraine, a hobbyhorse of Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

From Los Angeles Times

He has gone on to establish regular, silly characters - a romantic poet, a highwayman with a hobbyhorse, and a running story that sends up the allure of the archetypal aloof hero.

From BBC