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bogeyman

An imaginary monster used to frighten children.

bogeyman

An object of dread or apprehension.

Uso de bugbear en inglés
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Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics.
Independent.ie
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However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control.
The Irish Times
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That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.
How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell
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Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance.
Reuters
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The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute.
In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
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Weight is still my bugbear because I am so sensitive to food.
The Guardian
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Responsibility, the bugbear of mankind, was as the breath in her nostrils.
Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi...
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Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear.
History of the Girondists, Volume I / Personal Memoirs of the Pa...
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Home grows less and less a bugbear when you speak of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 / A Maga...
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Part of the reason is because of the perennial department store bugbear.
News.com.au
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So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commer...
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I have no wish to be made a bugbear to my family.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
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I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me.
The Way We Live Now
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I'm sorry you've carried that bugbear about with you for so long.
The Lamp in the Desert
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Density, far from being the bugbear of cities, will remain their great appeal.
The Guardian
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The Circassians seem to be the great bugbear in Asiatic Turkey.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
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