pet aversion
Example Sentences
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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
Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original prot�g�, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Day, Holman
Mrs. Blair was the wife of the vicar of All Saints’, where the Drummonds attended, and from a boy she had been his pet aversion.
From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
