idée fixe
Americannoun
plural
idées fixesnoun
Example Sentences
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An idée fixe ever since has been that the country “needs” four national wireless carriers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2018
Mr. Trump stayed rather quiet on the topic of late-night shows, even as he became their idée fixe.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017
And if any one foodstuff serves as his leitmotif and idée fixe, it’s soup.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017
We are in the presence of a bore: one of those men whose minds have battened on an idée fixe and mislaid their sense of balance in the process.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
The dread of insanity became an idée fixe with him; and the pathetic cry, "God preserve my reason," rings again and again through his private correspondence.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
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