hobby-horse in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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hobby-horse in the PONS Dictionary

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It is the first reliable claim for a practically used bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine commonly called a velocipede, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse.
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Details differ slightly from place to place, but there are usually two or three hobby-horses (of the tourney type).
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Book and characters are saturated with the author's enthusiasms, views and hobby-horses.
www.telegraph.co.uk
My main argument, however, is that the word "velocipede" was used generically to include all types of machine including even hobby-horses for which it was originally coined.
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How the use, or not, of the traffic indicator has changed in recent years is one of my hobby-horses.
www.westmeathexaminer.ie
It's very disappointing if it's the case that clubs are being denied players, it has been a hobby-horse of mine for 40 years but nothing has changed.
www.irishexaminer.com

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