bête noire

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bête noire (b

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One that is particularly disliked or that is to be avoided: "Tax shelters had long been the bête noire of reformers" (Irwin Ross).

[French : bête, beast + noire, black.]

bête noire (French) [bɛt nwar]

n pl bêtes noires [bɛt nwar]

a person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads

[literally: black beast]

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bête noire

noun pet hate, horror, nightmare, devil, curse, dread, bogey, scourge, aversion, nemesis, anathema, bane, abomination, bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, thorn in the flesh or side Our real bête noire is the car-boot sale.

Translations

bête noire [ˈbeɪtˈnwɑːʳ] N → bestia f negra, pesadilla f

bête noire

n to be somebody’s bête noire → jdm ein Gräuel sein

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