hobbyhorse

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  1. noun A child's riding toy that consists of a long stick with an imitation horse's head on one end.
  2. noun See rocking horse.
  3. noun A figure of a horse worn attached to the waist of a mummer, as in a morris dance.
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  • Their perennial hobbyhorse has been a reliable truth serum, or at least one better than the problematic sodium pentothal. —  FSF,December2007
  • The hobbyhorse was lying in an ungainly heap a few feet away in the grass. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • Beyond this banal main point, the report suggests that the United States might maybe keep a number of adviser troops in Iraq beyond 2011 -- which is something of a CNAS hobbyhorse -- but political realities in Iraq (which the authors themselves point out) make such a development exceedingly unlikely. —  Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • The reality is that while DRM may be a big hobbyhorse for geeks, it isn't really a big concern for most iTunes shoppers. —  GigaOM
  • So, Geoghegan was, to some extent, using the mortgage meltdown to ride a hobbyhorse of his. —  VDARE.com: Blog Articles
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