fixed idea

English

Etymology

Calque of French idée fixe.

Noun

fixed idea (plural fixed ideas)

1. An idée fixe, an obsession, a fixation.
   • 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 77:

     [I]t was systemic, directed by Washington and signaling a rapprochement between the Americans and Havana, the imminence of which was a fixed idea among Miami Cubans.