pet aversion
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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 Ian Hay
Egbert Phillips had been, evidently, the judge's pet aversion and, in his later days illness and fretfulness had magnified and intensified that aversion.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
He was a capable man, however, despite his pet aversion, and there was concern in his voice when he spoke.
From Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer
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