An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
1 It was his fixed idea- une idee 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.
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.
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