hobby horse

Despite that legal history, Medicaid work requirements remain a beloved hobby horse of conservatives.

But I want to ask about another hobby horse of mine, and almost no one is talking about it: The brain drain issue.

“Merrick Garland needs a new hobby horse,” Pattis said of the attorney general, whose Justice Department secured the convictions.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican, galloped around on his hobby horse this week demanding that all Ukraine aid be immediately redirected to Israel.

We have a conflagration in the Middle East happening as we speak but his hobby horse still takes precedence.