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- It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
hobby(-)horse
['hɔbɪhɔːs]
сущ.; = hobby horse
театр.; ист. маска лошади до половины туловища (использовавшаяся в пантомимах, в танце по мотивам легенды о Робин Гуде)
лошадка (игрушка); палочка с лошадиной головой
конь-качалка
карусельный конь
конёк (постоянный предмет мыслей, излюбленная тема разговора)
Examples from texts
In the best case, if people were well brought up, they would wait for a pause in the conversation before mounting their own hobbyhorse again.В лучшем случае, если воспитанные, дождутся паузы в разговоре и снова о своем.Akunin, Boris / The Jack of SpadesАкунин, Борис / Пиковый валетПиковый валетАкунин, Борис© B. Akunin, автор, 1999© И. Захаров, издатель, 1999The Jack of SpadesAkunin, Boris© 2007 by Random House, Inc.© 1999 by Boris Akunin
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Collocations
be on one's hobbyhorse
сесть на своего любимого конька
Word forms
hobbyhorse
noun
| Singular | Plural | |
| Common case | hobbyhorse | hobbyhorses |
| Possessive case | hobbyhorse's | hobbyhorses' |