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Meanings of idee fixe in English

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Usage of idee fixe in English
1
It was his fixed idea-uneidee fixe, as he himself said.
The Money Master, Volume 5.
2
He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une idee fixe.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Vo...
3
The idee fixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
4
At twenty-five she had an idee fixe.
Howards End
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.
The new yorker
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.
The Gates of Chance
7
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.
Jacqueline — Volume 1