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- noun Plural form of
hobby-horse .
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Examples
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Thank God Obama is using accurate, precise terminology, instead of being deliberately vague in order to squeeze a bunch of pre-existing, ideological hobby-horses under the rubric of our war effort. joe from Lowell says:
Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil 2010
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There is no shortage of places on the Internet where people with a pedantic interest in language can bang on interminably about their favourite hobby-horses while saying very little of interest to people who really understand language.
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At some point, if we continue to import more and more, there will be no money to fund your little pet projects/hobby-horses.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3: 16 pm or maybe higher-information voters just divide the question into smaller subquestions, and answer different ones depending on salience, interests, hobby-horses, etc.
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There is no shortage of places on the Internet where people with a pedantic interest in language can bang on interminably about their favourite hobby-horses while saying very little of interest to people who really understand language.
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Sorry for the length, but it's one of my 'hobby-horses'.
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At some point, if we continue to import more and more, there will be no money to fund your little pet projects/hobby-horses.
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There is no shortage of places on the Internet where people with a pedantic interest in language can bang on interminably about their favourite hobby-horses while saying very little of interest to people who really understand language.
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Thinks our marriage is heading for the rocks, I say through a half smile, thinking of my reliably melodramatic father and how regularly he switches his hobby-horses of woe.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Thinks our marriage is heading for the rocks, I say through a half smile, thinking of my reliably melodramatic father and how regularly he switches his hobby-horses of woe.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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