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
And, with the gracefullest of bows, he got quit of Mr. Holt and his pet aversion together.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Her pet aversion, Miss Merton, was not occupying the chair behind it.
From Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore by Pauline Lester
Aunt Olive made me consult Doctor Travers, he's my uncle's pet aversion, you know, because he wanted Aunt Matilda to go into his sanatorium and Uncle Levi considered it an insult.
From A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
