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Meanings of hobbyhorse in English
Portuguese
cavalo de pau Catalan
cavall de cartró A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.
Usage of hobbyhorse in English
1
He sent her up a little hobbyhorse from the property room.
2
Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne.
3
You know how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse creaks.
4
He should climb down off his Brexit hobbyhorse and pay it a visit!
5
Now for a short ride on my chief (at present) hobbyhorse, viz.
6
Monmouth was a hobbyhorse and William is a stallion.
7
The country has paid dear for Sir John's hobbyhorse.
8
She thought about Andrew crossing the bridge, and, no doubt, crisscrossing San Francisco, pursuing some hobbyhorse.
9
I dunno, this hobbyhorse about getting it reversed.
10
His hobbyhorse, Claire would have said.
11
Now I am on my hobbyhorse, I cannot help inserting two other old stanzas, which please me mightily:-
12
If you were stark mad and riding a hobbyhorse down the road, I'd still take it off you.
13
When he wasn't on his hobbyhorse, Reverend Jacobs could give lively, sometimes funny talks with lessons drawn from Scripture.
14
It had a sunshade and ground-reflector wings, and Bordman rode tiredly on a hobbyhorse saddle in its back cargo section.
15
It was his hobbyhorse.
16
Legends had always been his hobbyhorse, and he simply couldn't allow this young smart alec to get the better of him.
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