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something that annoys or bothers a person very much
One of my biggest pet peeves is people driving too slowly on the highway.
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My pet peeve is the slowpokes particularly those that set their cruise control in the middle lane causing frustrated drivers to pass them on the left and right.
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Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2024
Hell, the entire premise of its story depends upon its ability to reclaim casual audiences’ most consistent pet peeve: The fact that people almost never stay dead in these films.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
One of my pet peeves is: Don’t sit around me or near me and then have your phone at full volume.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
The situation involving Larry’s lawyer and his private bathroom, meanwhile, is another bit of proof that Curb loves to repeatedly mine specific pet peeves — so many episodes about using the bathroom! — and continues to find some comic gold.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
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Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2024
Hell, the entire premise of its story depends upon its ability to reclaim casual audiences’ most consistent pet peeve: The fact that people almost never stay dead in these films.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
One of my pet peeves is: Don’t sit around me or near me and then have your phone at full volume.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
The situation involving Larry’s lawyer and his private bathroom, meanwhile, is another bit of proof that Curb loves to repeatedly mine specific pet peeves — so many episodes about using the bathroom! — and continues to find some comic gold.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
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