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Meanings of boogeyman in inglês
Synonyms
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
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.
Usage of boogeyman in inglês
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.
6
Every corner of the military community has its own boogeyman.
7
Old Man Ravenwood was the boogeyman of Gatlin, a story I'd heard since kindergarten.
8
With that, local media at odds with the government crowned him the new radical boogeyman.
9
For more than a year, there were few consequences for Trump invoking an Islamic boogeyman.
10
For so many years he was my personal boogeyman.
11
We're all civilized, reasonably well-educated adults, and adults aren't supposed to believe in the boogeyman.
12
Fathers were a myth where I grew up; a legend, kind of like the boogeyman.
13
Certainly you'd kick the boogeyman's ass and flex-cuff him.
14
Wendy was only scared of the boogeyman summoned up by a single hysterical little boy.
15
Jude could believe in a ghost but not a boogeyman, a pure incarnation of evil.
16
Now, conflict between the United States and its trading partners appears to be markets' biggest boogeyman.
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