Mr. Fixit

[fiks-it]

noun

Informal.

1. a person who characteristically repairs or tinkers with things, as household appliances (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).

2. a person who epitomizes the ability or tendency to manage situations or solve problems (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mr. Fixit¹

First recorded in 1920–25; from verb phrase fix it

Example Sentences

Portsmouth were on the brink of bankruptcy when he bought them in 1999 before being revived under his stewardship in a pattern which would earn him a reputation as football's 'Mr Fixit'.

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The latter made his bones in the UK division of Rupert Murdoch’s lying machine as a Mr. Fixit, cleaning up the remnants of Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal by deleting inconvenient emails and sowing the landscape with red herrings.

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“I used to say that he liked to call himself ‘the fixer,’ or ‘Mr. Fixit,’ and it was only because he first broke it that he was able to fix it,” Hope Hicks snarked.

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He used to revel in the nickname "Mr Fixit".

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There are many memorable characters in “Tell Me Everything” — from the plus-size sex worker to the beady-eyed coach to the incomparable Mr. Fixit that is JD — but it’s Krouse’s own persona, with her supernatural powers, her supersize wounds and her spiritual speedball of courage and vulnerability, that makes this book mesmerizing on every page.

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