pet aversion
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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
The cause of silver may be my "pet aversion" as a political theory, but I have all respect for the honest multitude who espoused it.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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
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