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单词 pet peeve
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pet peeve in American English

noun
a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear
This train service is one of my pet peeves
Word origin
[1915–20, Amer.]

Examples of 'pet peeve' in a sentence
pet peeve

Inflated mini-bar costs were second, with 26 per cent voting them their pet peeve.Academia, you can tell, is clearly a pet peeve of mine.Wasted opportunities are my pet peeve.One of his pet peeves was 'marketing'.In such a cut-throat environment, everyone has pet peeves.One of her pet peeves is the constant speculation about boyfriends.His pet peeves even extend to material about his new cat.His conversation darts savagely from subject to subject, bouncing from pet peeves to bêtes noires and back again.The report found our pet peeves on the beach include leaving rubbish, drinking heavily and flicking sand about.
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