- that you are very interested in
- his pet subject/theory/project, etc.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a noun; originally Scots and northern English): of unknown origin.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See pet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysomebody’s pet hate (British English)
(North American English somebody’s pet peeve)
- something that you particularly dislikeTopics Preferences and decisionsc2
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