bête noire

bête noire englanniksi

1. bete noire

1. Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.

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2. (quote-journal); Black, Young, and Young,(nb...)|month=October|year=1833|volume=XII|issue=XXIV|page=390|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/foreignquarterly12npnpuoft/page/390/mode/1up|oclc=613024420|passage=A petticoated politician was Napoleon Bonaparte's ''bête noire'', or antipathy, (..)

3. (quote-journal)|month=September|year=1836|volume=LXVIII|issue=CXXXVI|page=504|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5BHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA504|oclc=1009026207|passage=No reader can be ignorant that for many years past the ''bêtes noires'' of the Whigs and Radicals were what they delighted to call ‘''political parsons''.’ If the clergyman was a magistrate, he was libelled as a ''political parson''; if he presided at a vestry that levied a church-rate, he was persecuted as a ''political parson''.

4. (RQ:Thackeray Barry Lyndon) I found at length that the widow was growing dreadfully afraid of me, calling me her ''bête noire'', her dark spirit, her murderous adorer, and a thousand other names indicative of her extreme disquietude and terror.

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6. (quote-journal)|date=10 November 1997|volume=19|issue=45|page=159|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA159|column=1|issn=0199-6649|oclc=818915902|passage=Life is easy for people who have just one bête noire and a trusty silver bullet. There are, for example, people whose bête noire is censorship and whose silver bullet is the First Amendment. (..) And there are many whose life is all about this week's subject—privacy—as if nothing else matters. Problem is that privacy conflicts with other important rights, such as freedom of speech.

7. (quote-journal)

8. (l), hate, peeve