Bugbears

Bugbears don't have the same naming guides the way more popular races like humans and elves do.

For decades, Social Security and Medicare have been the bugbears of centrist austerians who (supposedly) want to cut the federal budget deficit.

For Orbán, the problem is less the virus itself than other familiar bugbears.

The earlier images, she says, seemed “stolen” – another of her bugbears, in that snatched pictures take the power away from their subjects.

Other passages are merely sceptical in tone: "he persuades men to atheism, willing them not to be afraid of bugbears and hobgoblins".