Translations for „bugaboo“ in the English » German Dictionary

buga·boo [ˈbʌgəbu:] N inf

bugaboo

Schreckgespenst nt

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College football is too tough a game for a player to escape the injury bugaboo entirely.

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The form had been a long-standing bugaboo among conservatives who felt the state has no business knowing the granular details of their lives.

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There is usually the bugaboo of an opposing side with different ideas on social order and policy.

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That problem did not arise with the movie period when prohibition was the big social bugaboo.

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Bugaboo strollers begin to look like high-performance cycling equipment.

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Evolution isn't a guess, or a cynical move to promote atheism, or whatever feverishly imagined bugaboo flies around in the heads of these four men.

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But among the calorie-conscious, the latest bugaboo is sugar, not just fat, in weight control and overall health.

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Hiding wiring is another bugaboo that troubles many interior projects.

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Dickey looked good until his bugaboo, the longball came to the fore in the sixth inning.

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There were no hitches or weird noises -- both bugaboos of electric cars of the past.

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