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What (who) is bête noire - definition
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Bete noir; Bete Noire; Bete noire; Bête Noire; Bête noire (disambiguation); Bête noir; Bêtes noires
bete noire
Note: in AM and sometimes in BRIT, use 'bete noire'
If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
Our real bete noire is the car boot sale.
= bugbear
N-SING: oft with poss
Bete noire
·- Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
Bête noire
Bête noire ("black beast" in French, meaning something that is an object of aversion or the bane of one’s existence) may refer to:
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Bête noire
Bête noire ("black beast" in French, meaning something that is an object of aversion or the bane of one’s existence) may refer to:
- Bête Noire (album), an album by British singer Bryan Ferry, released on Virgin Records in November 1987
- Bête Noire (comics), a comic anthology
- Bête Noire, an NCIS (season 1) episode
Examples of use of bête noire
1. Yet even here, Bush‘s every move was shadowed by his leftist regional bête noire, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, taunting him with go–home–Gringo–themed speeches and demonstrations.
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3. David quickly became the 1'th–century‘s bête noire, the personification of the Academy that Courbet and Manet challenged and the Impressionists and Post–Impressionists largely ignored.
4. And it was a measure of Bush‘s problems within his own party that the strongest voice of support he received Tuesday came from Kennedy, the arch–liberal and bête noire of American conservatism.