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Hobbyhorse

noun

A topic to which one constantly reverts.

A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride. Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse.

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"Hobbyhorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... fall. He stuck to the red-haired pony as he had stuck to the hobbyhorse; but oh, how different the delight of this wild gallop with flesh and blood! Just as his legs were beginning to feel as if he did not feel them, the Gipsy boy cried "Lollo!" Round went the pony so unceremoniously, that, with as little ceremony, Jackanapes ...

— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing

... sinful, the first going to war must be more so, by all the difference between wilful attack, and unavoidable defence. Wherefore, if ye really preach from conscience, and mean not to make a political hobbyhorse of your religion convince the world thereof, by proclaiming your doctrine to our enemies, FOR THEY LIKEWISE BEAR ARMS. Give us proof of your sincerity by publishing it at St. James's, to the commanders in chief at Boston, to the Admirals and Captains who are ...

— Common Sense • Thomas Paine

... they are in this year of Peace 1947," responded his dragoman, arresting him before a statue; "for the development of this hobby has been peculiar since you were here in 1910, when the childlike and contortionist movement was just beginning to take hold of ...

— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... Jellyband had at last succeeded in getting upon his favourite hobby-horse, and had no intention of dismounting in ...

— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... the university was part of the great Palo Alto ranch of the Stanfords, devoted to the raising of grain, grapes and the famous trotting horses that were "the Senator's" hobby and California's pride. It resembled the Berkeley situation, in that the bay lies before it and the foothills of the Santa Cruz range behind, but the former is three miles away and the Palo Alto country is so level that only when one climbs the rolling slopes behind the college does ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

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