bête noire

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French, literally ‘black beast’.

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[edit] Noun

bête noire (plural bêtes noires)

  1. An anathema; someone or something which is particularly disliked or avoided; an object of aversion, the bane of one’s existence.

[edit] Translations

an anathema

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