all I understood by being a gentlewoman was to be able to work for myself, and get enough to keep me without that terrible
bugbear going to service, whereas they meant to live great, rich and high, and I know not what.
I understand that Mazarin is at this very moment extremely uneasy as to the state of affairs; that his orders are not respected like those of our former
bugbear, the deceased cardinal, whose portrait as you see hangs yonder -- for whatever may be thought of him, it must be allowed that Richelieu was great."
I used to feel that keenly as a boy, when, by a prophetic irony, burglars were my
bugbear, and I looked under my bed every night in life.
Fear creates
bugbears. At this crisis Baudoyer firmly believed in the said Chapter, little aware that the only Jesuits who had put him where he now was sat by his own fireside, and in the Cafe Themis playing dominoes.
You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster, and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the
bugbears and hobgoblins which their nurses have talked to them about.
She told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "I think that's a
bugbear for many consumers.
That will keep a frictionless border between north and south in Ireland - the biggest
bugbear of the talks.
In medieval England, the
Bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the woods.
The member for Marple North told the meeting: "Feet on seats is a real
bugbear for me.
I refuse to believe that I am the only person wound up by a particular phrase, although I am happy to accept that I am uniquely troubled by "same" and "difference." I know that you, gentle reader, will have your own
bugbear phrases.
48% of British travellers say lack of cleanliness is their greatest
bugbear when staying at a hotel;.
But his biggest
bugbear was leaving a meal unfinished and being asked if he wanted it "to go".