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