fixed idea

In the meantime, every pre-fixed idea on left and right is laid waste here.

I hate to burst your fixed idea that Tomasky surely comes from a long line of elitists.

On the way I passed a gingerbread shop, and the fixed idea took hold of me that you must like gingerbread.

It seems to be a fixed idea that a girl is dependent on invitations from young men for her social pleasures.

If I diagnose or treat the fixed idea of a psychasthenic, the psychological factor itself represents the disturbance.

I cannot decide, but he has told me that never till that time did he realise the sustaining power of a fixed idea.

The leader himself had one fixed idea in his mind, to reach Washington before Congress adjourned.