fix someone's wagon
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fix someone's wagon
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From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.
verb fixes someone's wagon · fixing someone's wagon · fixed someone's wagon
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To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.
Similar: give someone what for, take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head
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verb punish
| 中文 | 給...點兒顏色看 /给...点儿颜色看 gěi...diǎnr yánsè kàn |
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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