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It is a noun that means "a long-standing source of fear, anxiety, or annoyance". For example, "My boss's endless list of rules and regulations is a real bugbear to me."
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And she has started a project to photograph her "biggest bugbear": the sanitary disposal units (SDUs) in British toilets.
AH No-shows are the bugbear of the restaurant business, which explains the proliferation of no-reservations joints at the informal end.
I asked Ed Miliband on Tuesday why I had not heard him mention immigration during his two visits to the constituency when it was so obviously so many people's number one bugbear.
Things have improved but my biggest bugbear is that there are few people in any government who have actually worked in a SME, and know what it is like to pay VAT, rates and wages.
Some struggled to pick only a single bugbear (one even called to apologise for taking too long, so spoilt for choice were they), others took the chance to uncompromisingly unload their frustrations.
Cruz specifically set his sights on an analysis published on Monday by the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, which Cruz incorrectly referred to as being part of the New York Times, a bugbear for the Fox News audience.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] goal of female equalityRegarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goalss, organisations that are working on gender equality and women's empowerment are not lobbying for their own "particular bugbear" in the targets ("Unsustainable goals", March 28th).
More development in communications equipment and investment in ground stations would improve things.The other bugbear, propulsion, is harder to solve.
But if it lets him run and he wins, the supreme leader's own power plainly will diminish.Moreover, Mr Rafsanjani is not his only bugbear.
Consider the policies of Richard Nixon, that legendary bugbear of the American left.
That opened the way for Robert Fico, Ms Radicova's predecessor and a Brussels bugbear, in 2006.
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