peeve

pet peeve

A typically minor issue that causes one frequent and recurring annoyance. It's always been my pet peeve when cars turn without using their signals. It drives me crazy! A: "Ugh, I hate it when people talk during a movie." B: "Oh, I know, that's my pet peeve, too!"
See also: peeve, pet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pet peeve

Fig. a frequent annoyance; one's "favorite" or most often encountered annoyance. My pet peeve is someone who always comes into the theater after the show has started. Drivers who don't signal are John's pet peeve.
See also: peeve, pet
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

pet peeve

A particular or recurring source of irritation, as in My pet peeve is that neighbor's cat running through my herb garden. [Early 1900s]
See also: peeve, pet
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

pet peeve

n. a major or principal annoyance or complaint. Dirty dishes in restaurants are my pet peeve.
See also: peeve, pet
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

pet peeve, one's

One’s favorite gripe, a recurring source of annoyance. The noun peeve is what linguists call a back formation from the adjective peevish, but its ultimate derivation, as well as that of pet, is apparently unknown. The pairing of the two, an Americanism, dates from the early 1900s.
See also: pet
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • pet peeve
  • pet peeve, one's
  • your, his, etc. pet hate
  • pet hate
  • a bone to pick
  • a crow to pluck
  • anything else?
  • (Is there) anything else?
  • (will there be) anything else?
  • final
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The first person stops talking, and the second person will begin ranting about their Pet Peeve.
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One pet peeve of mine is the increasingly common use of the redundant terms "front shoulder" and "rear ham." We know which end the shoulders and hams are on.
That's obvious
Warnings against sickled passes, a pet peeve of Gedeon's, are dispersed with other verbal reminders, "ankles up, arches up" and placement checks, "long back, stomach in, straight supporting leg," that precede each exercise.
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News photographers prepare their remote cameras; Bud Mann of Altoona, Florida and his pet, Peeve, settle in for the night so they can watch the launch; A NASA technician works above the shuttle as it sits on Launch Pad 39B; Clockwise from left, spectators gather along the Port Canaveral barge canal at sunrise in advance of the scheduled launch; Japanese specialist Soichi Noguchi holds a card saying ``Out to Launch'' before entering the shuttle; the crew - pilot James Kelly, mission specialist Wendy Lawrence, centre, and commander Eileen Collins, front right.
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My second pet peeve, is when things are not returned to the place they came from.
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In 2011, she got annoyed with 23-year-old Taylor's false modesty and said: "My biggest pet peeve about Taylor is that she walks on stage in front of 25,000 people and still goes, 'Me?
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A multifaceted perspective on Joan's career and personal life is provided by an inspired assortment of interviews, including playright and rabid Crawford fan Charles Busch, director and former lover Vincent Sherman (who admits to giving Joan a well-deserved slap in the face), costars Betsy Palmer and Diane Baker, and Christina herself, who reveals the origin of Joan's most notorious pet peeve: When Joan was a child, her impoverished mother was forced to take a job at a laundry, where the family lived in a cramped back room full of--yes!--wire hangers!
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