Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για HOBBYHORSE
1. Mark Twains favourite hobbyhorse, the sheer length of German compound nouns, has not been reined in.
2. She was also ahead of the curve in her call for independent producers to retain rights – a hobbyhorse that was to keep Edinburgh busy for the next 15 years.
3. And there‘s no question that he would use the U.N. as a personal hobbyhorse to harass the White House." Venezuelan officials cast Chávez‘s diplomatic efforts as a high–minded necessity in the face of American imperialism.
4. Hence, "soap opera". At the period he was writing Bleak House, sanitary reform – soap for the nation – was an obsession with Dickens – his idée fixe, his hobbyhorse, his mania, one of the few topics on which he could be boring.
5. I bring up Bush‘s appalling record of executions not because I have once again mounted my anti–capital–punishment hobbyhorse but because his record offers an insight into why the United States will stay in Iraq and with even more troops than before.