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• n  a topic to which one constantly reverts
  don't get him started on his hobbyhorse
• n  a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride

• Pursuing his own hobbyhorse, Senator Patrick Leahy reiterated his call for an independent "truth commission" on Bush-era detention and interrogation policies.
• Huiyuan is a high-profile national brand, and its sale to Coke had become a hobbyhorse for nationalists who often dominate popular Internet chat rooms in China.
• He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber.

• hobby
• rocking horse

Quotes

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• Tim Kaine in Los Angeles Times
  People who want to take this within 24 hours of the event and make it their political hobbyhorse to ride, I have got nothing but loathing for them,Kaine said.
• Shane Black in TheDenverChannel.com
  I've had a private passion for them since I was very young -- it's my hobbyhorse,Black told me in a recent @ The Movies interview. "Private eye novels -- tough guy novels -- are things that I read at a very early age. I was only 9 years...
• Julian Fantino in Toronto Star
  We will also need timely political intervention to fix loopholes in current drunk-driving laws that have become the hobbyhorse for defence lawyers to extricate their drunk-driving clients from the consequences of their criminal conduct,...