get a fix

Idioms  

1. Obtain a needed dose of something, especially but not necessarily a narcotic drug. For example, Heroin addicts will do anything to get their fix, or Chris referred to her daily swim in the pool as her chlorine fix. The noun fix has been used for a narcotic dose since the 1930s, and was extended to other compulsively sought things about two decades later. Also see get a fix on.

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Example Sentences

A few weeks later he wrote that he was working “with our IT guys to get a fix where my gmail no longer” would get picked up on his government phone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"To be able to persevere through that period and finally get a fix for that was great."

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

As the company struggles to get a fix for the Max approved by regulators, new safety risks have recently emerged with the plane.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

“The more he tried to get a fix on the fact of being Cass here,” Goldstein writes, “the more the whole idea of it just got away from him.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2019

“Good question. And the answer, if you understand me, is that that way it’s just a mite harder for people to get a fix on you.”

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen