Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fix someone's wagon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English

Syllables: fix -some-one's wag-on
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.

Example Sentences

"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."
"According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. […] "He was going to fix their wagon good," said Mr Breeden."

Etymology

From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.

Inflected Forms

fixes someone's wagon (present, singular) fixing someone's wagon (participle, present) fixed someone's wagon (participle, past) fixed someone's wagon (past)

Synonyms

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

Questions

What does fix someone's wagon mean?: To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
Where does fix someone's wagon come from?: From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.

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