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