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Fixed idea

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An idée fixe, an obsession, a fixation.

    "[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."

Etymology

Calque of French idée fixe.

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