Meanings (ES + gloss)
bestia negra
Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.
No reader can be ignorant that for many years past the bêtes noires of the Whigs and Radicals were what they delighted to call ‘political parsons.’ If the clergyman was a magistrat…
[A] petticoated politician was [Napoleon] Bonaparte's bête noire, or antipathy, […]
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