fixed idea
English
Etymology
Calque of French idée fixe.
Noun
fixed idea (plural fixed ideas)
- An idée fixe, an obsession.
- 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta 2005, p. 77:
- [I]t was systemic, directed by Washington and signaling a rapprochement between the Americans and Havana, the imminence of which was a fixed idea among Miami Cubans.
- 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta 2005, p. 77: