fixed idea
Example Sentences
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Getting a new view on someone I had such a fixed idea of who or want he was, and this is a way of understanding that.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023
But “love of my life” is a fixed idea, and people are fluid, updating themselves over time.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023
Coalition 18 has no fixed idea of what form its organizing should take.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period … weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness … about the shallowness of sanity.”
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2018
R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
