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Bogeyman
Bogeyman meaning
A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories. | Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract; a real threat greatly exaggerated for those purposes.
Example sentences (20)
When you say that the bogeyman is going to get you, you’re planting the image of the bogeyman in the head.
It remains to be seen whether this elite is prepared to accept another prime minister linked to Thaksin, who remains a bogeyman figure for them.
Scottish income tax – so who is afraid of the bogeyman?
The show explored in an age-appropriate manner the theme of ‘not fitting in’ – a tooth fairy dreaming about battling monsters and a bogeyman wishing to make friends.
He over relied on the communism bogeyman strategy to the degree that during their presidential debate he demanded of Jagan “Are you still a communist?
Israel is the incontrovertible bogeyman in this conflict, and Jews its scholastic proxies.
That could be important against Blackburn where he might well be tasked with dealing with Boro bogeyman Sam Gallagher aerially.
We get it; you are ashamed of supporting Putin’s invasion and need to blame it on some faceless bogeyman to help you cope.
But rather than focus on fears of job-stealing robots, experts say the city should keep an eye on a different bogeyman — letting worries about automation lead to a decision to let technology lag behind.
It’s our own anxiety that will be the biggest bogeyman, and a great thing we can do for kids’ general wellbeing, and learning, is to get that under control.
Nationalism could well be the banner under which the struggle and the inevitable sacrifices will come, and race the bogeyman just as Jews were in Germany.
NEW YORK — Ten years ago last week, a bogeyman was born.
They use bogeyman rhetoric to scare the public into thinking that allowing private payment for care would lead to a U.S.-style system with the rich getting fixed and the poor left sick or bankrupt.
But now there is a bigger bogeyman, and he’s in the presidential palace.
Corbyn rounds up “billionaires” as a convenient bogeyman and says that he’s “coming for them”.
Councillor Neil Bloomfield - one of Martock's two ward members- previously accused the council of "running scared of the Bogeyman in Bristol" - referring to the Planning Inspectorate, who would decide the outcome of the appeal.
It has been a marker of street crime, a visual bogeyman captured on grainy surveillance camera footage, a low-watermark of declining sartorial standards, a badge of disaffected youth.
Recorded instances of knife-related crimes in London stand in the tens of thousands—a figure that Khan seems eager to sweep under the carpet as he refocuses his efforts to pursue the “far-right” bogeyman.
Some bogeyman scare tactics to create hate in the world all for the sake of theft of other people's oil and to keep Opecs dominance in the oil markets.
And because of that last one, he’s also a bogeyman for America’s political right.