bête noire
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noun
- Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French bête noire (“(figurative) intolerable person”, literally “black beast”).
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