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Significados de hobbyhorse en inglés

portugués
cavalo de pau
catalán
cavall de cartró

A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.

cavalo de pau
Sinónimos
Examples for "hobby"
Examples for "hobby"
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She said lockdown changed her art from a hobby to a business.
Radio NZ
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He said Ulster Wool has given him a career and a hobby.
Independent.ie
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Thank you, she says, scampering off to pick up a new hobby.
News.com.au
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Use the Internet and scholarly sources to learn more about your hobby.
Jamaica Observer
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He also turned his hobby - politics - into a second career.
Independent.ie
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He asks why her father kept a rocking horse in his study.
The new yorker
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Provoked by the shifting of the old floorboards, the rocking horse squeaked.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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A highlight on this stand is likely to be a Victorian rocking horse.
The Irish Times
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An ancient rocking horse still stood in the corner, just beside the desk.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
5
I had some old toys out back, including a broken plastic rocking horse.
The Irish Times
Uso de hobbyhorse en inglés
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He sent her up a little hobbyhorse from the property room.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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You know how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse creaks.
Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 08, February 22, 1914
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He should climb down off his Brexit hobbyhorse and pay it a visit!
The Irish Times
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Now for a short ride on my chief (at present) hobbyhorse, viz.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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Monmouth was a hobbyhorse and William is a stallion.
Quicksilver
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The country has paid dear for Sir John's hobbyhorse.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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She thought about Andrew crossing the bridge, and, no doubt, crisscrossing San Francisco, pursuing some hobbyhorse.
Private life
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I dunno, this hobbyhorse about getting it reversed.
IT
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His hobbyhorse, Claire would have said.
Revival
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Now I am on my hobbyhorse, I cannot help inserting two other old stanzas, which please me mightily:-
The Letters of Robert Burns
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If you were stark mad and riding a hobbyhorse down the road, I'd still take it off you.
The Name of the Wind
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When he wasn't on his hobbyhorse, Reverend Jacobs could give lively, sometimes funny talks with lessons drawn from Scripture.
Revival
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It had a sunshade and ground-reflector wings, and Bordman rode tiredly on a hobbyhorse saddle in its back cargo section.
Sand Doom
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It was his hobbyhorse.
Revival
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Legends had always been his hobbyhorse, and he simply couldn't allow this young smart alec to get the better of him.
Metro 2034
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Translations for hobbyhorse
portugués
cavalo de pau
Hobbyhorse a través del tiempo