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bête noire
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somebody's bête noire
someone or something that you really hate or that really annoys you People who use jargon are his particular bête noire.


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The father of Richard Strauss, who was a horn player and a bête noire of conductors, wrote: "When a new man faces the orchestra, we know whether he is the master or we, from the way he walks up the steps to the podium and opens the score-before he even picks up his baton.
When the Baton Is a Magic Wand, Musicians Better Their Best by Charles Michener / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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