bete noire

Women are their bête noire and the hatred which they have unleashed against them is expressed in inhuman violence.
Les femmes sont leur bête noire et la haine qu' ils déchaînent à leur encontre est d' une violence inhumaine.
It was principally a platform for the left to attack their favourite bête noire, the United States.
Il s'agissait essentiellement d'une plateforme permettant à la gauche d'attaquer sa bête noire favorite, les États-Unis.
Whereas Voltaire regarded the Jesuits as his bête noire, the Voltaire network seems fixated on the Opus Dei group, but as a writer Voltaire at least had talent and style.
Voltaire avait fait des jésuites sa « bête noire », le réseau Voltaire semble faire une fixation sur l'Opus Dei mais l'écrivain, lui au moins, avait du talent et du style.
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