Don't get him started on his hobbyhorse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'd thought you'd found a different hobbyhorse by now. From Wordnik.com. [Polls Show No Convention Bounce Yet For McCain] Reference
MEC Ignatius Jacobs to ride his "internet hobbyhorse". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Twentytwo years ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
GREENFIELD: As you know, you've hit a hobbyhorse of mine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference
A carved wooden hobbyhorse rocked at a touch in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference
Oh dear, one thinks, another management guru riding his hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [From Prussia Without Fluff] Reference
This toy, a child's hobbyhorse tricycle floating next to a street sign. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008] Reference
It is McCain's hobbyhorse, which he rode to swift defeat in the primaries. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's America Is Working] Reference
The hobbyhorse was lying in an ungainly heap a few feet away in the grass. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
The woman and many like her are foundering for want of a new hobbyhorse to flog. From Wordnik.com. ["Once you went to a spa when you felt tense. Now you feel tense going to a spa."] Reference
Not only that, Glenn, this is a hobbyhorse I keep on getting up on, but the oil. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007] Reference
Steve Mc, is your definition of “hobbyhorse” simply “thermodynamics?” jae. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #17 « Climate Audit] Reference
I'm back on the Keith Laumer hobbyhorse ... want to read The Android's Dream, too. From Wordnik.com. [Hey John, I Finished the Ghost Brigades] Reference
Matt gathered from the attitudes of the others that Hood rode this hobbyhorse often. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
I find it tiresome that rights tied to guns are now seen as a right-wing hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report] Reference
The hobbyhorse forgotten, he and Lottie hurried up the hill to join Harriet and Allegra. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
He, too, uses his letter to ride his favorite hobbyhorse, about which I had said nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange] Reference
He carved a hobbyhorse that Princess Mary rode through the ballroom at Buckingham Palace. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Lord of The Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence] Reference
The Walk the Dog "cake" looks like a turtle head morphed on to some sort of hobbyhorse body. From Wordnik.com. [Sideshow Slideshow] Reference
You and he are actually on the same side, unless that hobbyhorse has already been abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Hinderacker: Gandhi, Mandela are Overrated] Reference
A favorite hobbyhorse of mine, as you can see at my blog if you search under the tag – WORK. From Wordnik.com. [Towards a bibliography of laziness and sloth « Jahsonic] Reference
This was the band of propagandists whose hobbyhorse had long been fighting the United Nations. From Wordnik.com. [How the Legionnaires Were Duped] Reference
As usual I had to drag out my strat-lift hobbyhorse and see how things were going on that front. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Mudcat has made a nice chunk as a local real estate developer politics largely being a hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference
Mr. Zakaria cleverly yokes together this favorite pundit hobbyhorse with another: American decline. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Needs a Better Reading List] Reference
The referee interpreted this as being a missing data bias – which is the hobbyhorse of the referee. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Review of Bürger and Cubasch « Climate Audit] Reference
In any event, it will give the Judge something to cite in the future when he needs to go back to his hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Copyright Royalty Board Unconstitutional?] Reference
But a statewide candidate in Indiana cannot go long without being asked to take sides on the highway hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [Interstate 69] Reference
In exchange, we should give the posters their occasional hobbyhorse political issues on which they wish to comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Thoughts on Multiple Blog Posts:] Reference
It's something of a hobbyhorse of mine that TV and film SF is just plodding and ordinary compared to SF as she is writ. From Wordnik.com. [D For Dreary] Reference
Since you brought up this hobbyhorse you should really see this over at the blog The Art of Memory, it is quite a feat. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard - Trains in the Movies] Reference
This would demonstrate to the public that the novelist was not riding his Dreyfus hobbyhorse for reasons of personal vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
And it appears to be precisely why Mr. Yosano was picked for a cabinet post; the consumption tax is Mr. Kan's hobbyhorse too. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese for 'Plus] Reference
Because you are not interested in doing the best possible job for your client, but rather in exercising your ideological hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Petitioner’s Brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago (The Second Amendment Incorporation Case)] Reference
The right-wingers got on their hobbyhorse at the behest of the chemical industry and spread lies and disinformation about ozone depletion. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox News Segment Falsely Claims That Denver Blizzard Casts Doubt On Global Warming] Reference
Remembering already-set preferences is another hobbyhorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Reference
Moneyball hobbyhorse, firing off angry fallacies left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Deadspin] Reference
Next door at a barber shop, he killed a 6-year-old boy on a hobbyhorse chair, and then the barber. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
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