"But people sticking with Obama is my _pet pea_." [NP]

[Jonathan Lighter]

Perh.   peeved > peed > pissed (off).

JL

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Damien Hall <damien.hall at newcastle.ac.uk>wrote:

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> 'Peeved' and 'peevish' duly noted. But I still bet you wouldn't find many
> young people who knew what they meant or used them - or, if they did use
> them (for example with the 'ill' meaning, if it's a local identity-marker),
> any young people who connected that meaning with the phrase we were
> originally discussing, 'pet peeve'.
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