bogeyman

• Was he simply a woodsy version of the bogeyman--as Mrs. Fairchild seemed to think -- a local variation of Bigfoot, frightening people on lonely farms, or something much, much older? —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
• And, of course the bogeyman is that CO2 concentrations increase global warming. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
• "The British government is co-operating with Lebanese military intelligence and I have become the bogeyman, a scapegoat for anything they wish to throw at me." —  The Jawa Report
• There is the tax bogeyman, the terror snark, the "othering" boojum. —  Blog of the Moderate Left
• What these “Wall Street†interviewees and Lester Thoreau wannabes kept repeating in lockstep rote nescience was that this $700B attempted bailout was intended to in fact rescue everybody†™ s favorite neo-bogeyman, the hedge fund fat cat. —  The Latest on Air America

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