bugbear

Preposition: of

• mine: And - a particular bugbear of mine - do not insist on being given nonsensical details.
• business: Credit control Pay me now please - how to get paid on time Late payment is the bugbear of many businesses.

Converse of object

• have: Broken links, disabled back buttons, the Flash intro - everybody has a web bugbear.
• solve: One of the main innovations of RSF, request-scope programming, also solves another perennial bugbear with web frameworks which is the scoping issue.
• become: The ecological fallacy has become a bugbear to frighten people away from interpreting social observations in collective terms.

Adjective modifier

• big: The big bugbear of cheap horns has always been the accuracy of the action.
• particular: In the focus groups, train fares were a particular bugbear: Train prices are unbelievable Tubes are better than trains.
• real: My real bugbear is Science GCSE modules in October!
• major: One major bugbear, however, is the present state of the road surface.
• personal: Billy Shears Zaranna Apr 20 2006, 04:14 PM some of my personal bugbears, many in use on the forum today.
• main: They cited graffiti, litter, rubbish and traffic as being their main bugbears.