An imaginary monster used to frighten children.
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Examples for "bugbear"
Examples for "bugbear"
1Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics.
2However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control.
3That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.
4Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance.
5The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute.
1As Immigration and Home Affairs Minister, he's had to be a bogeyman.
2Jack thought of Elroy, the bogeyman of the Oatley Tap, and shuddered.
3The unemployed man has become a bogeyman, a warning to disgruntled employees.
4The bandstand, a combination of two jumps, proved the day's biggest bogeyman.
5Blatherskites were gossips, murfles were freckles and Old Harry was a bogeyman.
1Only in sex matters has it succeeded in keeping the bugaboo alive.
2Throughout Pleasant Valley the very name of Grumpy Weasel was a bugaboo.
3Dead men: not even the Jesuits had erased the old Apache bugaboo.
4But they have one bugaboo, and that is the wild dog.
5That's been a bugaboo ever since I came to the lake.
1The Anvil was just a huge boogeyman after all, like you said.
2He was her boogeyman, the fount of all her miseries and unhappiness.
3Yes, this area of the river was an inspiration, not a lurking boogeyman.
4When they even give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman.
5Then Eddie G's boogeyman turns up in Dallas, at my shop.
1Mouse wipes it on the blanket as if it were a booger.
2Something else as well: a large green booger, damp and threaded with blood.
3I had heard about the 'booger man' and learned better then.
4She had the tiniest beginning of a booger up her nose.
5Gotta love it when somone goes for the booger and studies it once finished.
6He had a booger on that shirt once that was there for three days.
7Kiko's son, Milan, sits down beside me and shows me a very large booger.
8Or, more precisely, a booger fall from the Demon's nose.
9It's simple and gets the main idea across, but Sherlock Holmes has a flaming booger.
10The booger -not the mass carnage and betrayal.
11Makes a dozen roses look like a booger jack.
12What-nowwhy would a gal like that want to hang around with a booger like you?
13She held up her index finger, which had a dirt-grimed nail but no booger on it.
14Barbie picked the booger off the Special K and flicked it toward the corner he'd pissed in.
15It's a clash that pales only to the mix of booger jokes and heartfelt pleas for family togetherness.
16Don't give me no booger stories.