Bête noire

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A French expression meaning 'black beast,' used to refer to a person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads.

Appearance

Mentioned once in Something Borrowed, Someone Blue [1].

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue [1]

Season 7 · Episode 23 · S07E23

“I've come attuned to her various quirks... eccentricities... bugaboos.... bête noirs... night terrors.”
— Niles

From the same episode and category.

“My God, Dad! This is a 1945 Chateau Petrus!”

“I was reading about a Trappist monastery in the Amazon that they somehow built into the treetop.”

“You'll be on the arm of a well-known Seattle boulevardier and radio star.”

“Join me in a sherry, Frasier?”