pet peeve

English

Noun

pet peeve (plural pet peeves)

(colloquial) Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.
Ending questions with a period is one of my pet peeves.
- George Carlin
  I don’t have pet peeves; I have major, psychotic hatreds.

Synonyms

Related terms

pet project

Translations

something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike

Chinese:
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Finnish: inhokki (fi)

German: Hauptärgernis n, Lieblingsärgernis n, Lieblingsbeschwerde f, persönliche Abneigung f, persönlicher Aufreger m, privates Ding n, persönliches Ding n
Hebrew: שנאת מחמד‎ (he) (sin'át maḥmád)
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See also

push someone's buttons

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