Hobby Horses

January 7th, 2009 at 3: 16 pm or maybe higher-information voters just divide the question into smaller subquestions, and answer different ones depending on salience, interests, hobby-horses, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At some point, if we continue to import more and more, there will be no money to fund your little pet projects/hobby-horses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sorry for the length, but it's one of my 'hobby-horses'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thank God Obama is using accurate, precise terminology, instead of being deliberately vague in order to squeeze a bunch of pre-existing, ideological hobby-horses under the rubric of our war effort. joe from Lowell says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is no shortage of places on the Internet where people with a pedantic interest in language can bang on interminably about their favourite hobby-horses while saying very little of interest to people who really understand language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thinks our marriage is heading for the rocks, I say through a half smile, thinking of my reliably melodramatic father and how regularly he switches his hobby-horses of woe. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

You may guess the gist of it from what I've told you already, and you know what these lyrical buggers are like when they get on their hobby-horses, on and on like the never-wearied rook. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing tells you about your true concerns, preoccupations and hobby-horses more instantly and mercilessly than a Technorati cloud. ❋ Juliette (2009)

You really expressed one of my main hobby-horses so well in your speech - thanks again. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)

At the risk of making us all sound like the speakers in a dramatic monologue, our tics, crotchets, hobby-horses, and what-have-you all have a bad habit of manifesting themselves when we least expect it--and, often enough, without us knowing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We had our book buyers, the regulars and the curious, the dwellers who came in the morning and had to be swept out at night, amateur scholars with hobby-horses to ride, women with chores they wished to avoid, idle clergy and insolvent merchants. ❋ Young Geoffrion (2009)