pet hate

The tribunal in Aberdeen heard that Mr Clark accused Ms Farquharson of "strolling in" when it suited her and had a "pet hate" of people not turning up.

Tom says his pet hate is "red X abusers" - drivers who ignore lane closures because they are not paying attention, or worse - to beat traffic.

A pet hate of mine is when people cook the pasta in boiling water, but then drain and rinse it under cold water, washing off the starch.

“Clan criminality” is also the pet hate of North Rhine-Westphalia’s CDU interior minister, Herbert Reul.

In 2015, the roboticist Rodney Brooks chose the computational metaphor of the brain as his pet hate in his contribution to a collection of essays entitled This Idea Must Die.