pet peeve

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pet peeve (plural pet peeves)

  1. (colloquial) Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.
    Forgetting to finish a sentence with a period is one of my pet peeves.
    • 1970s, George Carlin, stand-up routine
      I don’t have pet peeves; I have major, psychotic hatreds.

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