Example sentences (2)
The two men after all share the same betes noires: distant, unaccountable power, thick-witted rules, many from Europe, gold plated by slovenly bureaucrats.
H. Ormerod considers that Polybius cannot be regarded as an 'altogether unprejudiced witness' in relation to his betes noires, the Aetolians, the Carthaginians, and the Cretans.