Meanings of great bugbear in English

The Circassians seem to be the great bugbear in Asiatic Turkey.

Rain was Phil's great bugbear when he was on any kind of an outing.

Islamism, the west's great bugbear, will still be there.

They are the great bugbear nowadays.

House-rent, that great bugbear of certain economists, is indeed a grievous affair at Sydney, as page 20 proves:-

This man was a great bugbear to Fanny, who had a very proper and wholesome regard for the strong arm of the law.

Again, we often talk about the origin of evil, that great bugbear of theologians, by which they frighten us into believing any superstition.

The great bugbear staring the amateur mechanic in the face when he contemplates making a small steam engine is the matter of boring the cylinder.

The crew felt like scraping acquaintance with them, favoring them with a hook, and the like; but then there interposed that great bugbear-thetreaty line.

But he was a good man nevertheless, for his greatest bugbear was debt.

Verily, duty is one of the greatest bugbears in life.

We must get rid of static interference-ourgreatest bugbear.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

British cruisers were a greater bugbear to American vessels than pirates, and Captain Parson kept a constant lookout for them.