Meaning of hobby-horsey | Babel Free

Definitions

Eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.

idiomatic, informal

Examples

“'The Dalzells of Daisydown' are a hobby-horsey family who live⟳ in an old, rambling, Virginia-creeper-covered English mansion and keep⟳ up fluctuating relations with friends at Newport. Two of them fall⟳ in love⟳ with the same young lady […]”

“The reporter's insistence on your emphasis on the sub-scale of ordinary Greeks was a deliberate attempt⟳ to offset scientific observations by making them appear⟳ hobby-horsey. To provide⟳ amusement for weak, fat-ridden office workers. What does an outsider know⟳?”

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