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Meanings of idée fixe in English
An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
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Usage of idée fixe in English
1
It was his fixed idea-uneidee fixe, as he himself said.
2
He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une idee fixe.
3
The idee fixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
4
At twenty-five she had an idee fixe.
5
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.
6
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.