An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
1It was his fixed idea-uneidee fixe, as he himself said.
2He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une idee fixe.
3The idee fixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
4At twenty-five she had an idee fixe.
5It suggests that our country is in the grip of an idee fixe, and has grown immune both to new experience and to new thought.
6Dr. Gonzales, who was really a fine chemist before he went dotty, got the idee fixe that all human ills were due to improper food.
7Nothing is such a bore as to travel with people who are pervaded by one idea, and my ' idee fixe' is my picture-mygreat Dominican.
Translations for idée fixe