fixed idea

noun

fixed idea

noun

Etymology Calque of French idée fixe.

1

An idée fixe, an obsession, a fixation.

[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, published 2005, page 77:

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