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hobby-horse

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hobby-horse
noun pet subject, obsession, preoccupation, fixation, thing (informal) Honesty is a favourite hobby-horse for him.
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hobby-horse [ˈhɒbɪˌhɔːs] n
a. (fig) → chiodo fisso
b. (toy) giocattolo di legno raffigurante la testa di un cavallo montata su un bastone
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The hobby-horse and the pestle and mortar were in great requisition during the time I remained in the house of Marheyo, and Kory-Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
The hero's wife and one child, the hobby-horse, the doctor, the foreign gentleman who not being familiar with the language is unable in the representation to express his ideas otherwise than by the utterance of the word 'Shallabalah' three distinct times, the radical neighbour who will by no means admit that a tin bell is an organ, the executioner, and the devil, were all here.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
A child's shoe; the doll, seated in her little wicker carriage; the hobby-horse -- whatever, in a word, has been used or played with during the day is now invested with a quality of strangeness and remoteness, though still almost as vividly present as by daylight.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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