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hobbyhorse

/hob-ee-hawrs/US // ˈhɒb iˌhɔrs //UK // (ˈhɒbɪˌhɔːs) //

兴趣马,嗜好马,爱好马,爱好者马

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stick with a horse's head, or a rocking horse, ridden by children.
    • : a figure of a horse, attached at the waist of a performer in a morris dance, pantomime, etc.
    • : a pet idea or project.

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Examples

  • Spanning 40 feet, it’s a riff on a hobbyhorse, but with a horned goat’s head.

  • You can get “money, Nobels… celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse….”

  • Obama came out for medical malpractice reform, a GOP hobbyhorse roughly forever (although the devil is in the details).

  • That you must carry everyone with you, swelling the ranks, is a hard-ridden Wasp hobbyhorse.

  • He laid hold of it and109 drew it out and set down on the faint rug of light a small wooden hobbyhorse.

  • It was Malcolm's hobbyhorse, dappled gray, the tail and the mane missing and the paint worn off—and tenderly licked off—his nose.

  • While he went within doors he had left the hobbyhorse in the snow, close to the wall; and he came back there to wait.

  • There he saw a spring hobbyhorse, as large as a Shetland pony, all saddled and bridled, too—lacking nothing but a rider.

  • They were smaller than the tiniest hobbyhorse that has ever been seen, as small almost as the toy horses in a "Noah's ark."