bogeyman

How To Use bogeyman In A Sentence

• Idly checking the state of debate among Eurosceptics, I was wryly amused to discover that the latest bogeyman is the European Gendarmerie Force, or EGF. April Books 1) The Emperor's Babe, by Bernardine Evaristo
• Right now that bogeyman is too feeble to inspire fear. What Goes Up Could Come Down: Stock-Bond Correlation
• But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman.
• Just as small children project their fear of the dark on to an imaginary bogeyman, the protagonists of the Western economies lay their fears at the door of the Iraqi dictator.
• One common one causing fright or dread was called in Yorkshire the boggart, in Scotland the bogle, and in England the bogey or bogeyman.
• A nation of namby pambies whining about every two-bit bogeyman is just a second-rate nation of Chicken Littles. David Ropeik: The Word: Feariness
• Fear and hype surround radiation, which has become something of a bogeyman in part because of popular culture.
• We then watched Fungus the Bogeyman whilst stuffing ourselves with fruit pastilles.
• Simply put, the "feds" - as some sort of mythical foreign bogeyman - aren't out to screw us. Archive 2006-10-01
• You may even need to see that old bogeyman who should be long gone in Shanghai - the backstreet money changer.