fixed idea
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fixed idea
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Vallejo also dedicated three summers to the caddie program, getting up early, enduring the heat and carrying heavy bags, always with a fixed idea in mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
Getting a new view on someone I had such a fixed idea of who or want he was, and this is a way of understanding that.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
But “love of my life” is a fixed idea, and people are fluid, updating themselves over time.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period … weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness … about the shallowness of sanity.”
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2018
R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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