A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.
1 He sent her up a little hobbyhorse from the property room.
2 Not one of them has any hobbyhorse , to use the phrase of Sterne.
3 You know how pleased a boy is when his hobbyhorse creaks.
4 He should climb down off his Brexit hobbyhorse and pay it a visit!
5 Now for a short ride on my chief (at present) hobbyhorse , viz.
6 Monmouth was a hobbyhorse and William is a stallion.
7 The country has paid dear for Sir John's hobbyhorse .
8 She thought about Andrew crossing the bridge, and, no doubt, crisscrossing San Francisco, pursuing some hobbyhorse .
9 I dunno, this hobbyhorse about getting it reversed.
10 His hobbyhorse , Claire would have said.
11 Now I am on my hobbyhorse , I cannot help inserting two other old stanzas, which please me mightily:-
12 If you were stark mad and riding a hobbyhorse down the road, I'd still take it off you.
13 When he wasn't on his hobbyhorse , Reverend Jacobs could give lively, sometimes funny talks with lessons drawn from Scripture.
14 It had a sunshade and ground-reflector wings, and Bordman rode tiredly on a hobbyhorse saddle in its back cargo section.
16 Legends had always been his hobbyhorse , and he simply couldn't allow this young smart alec to get the better of him.
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