English Explanatory Dictionary

fix someone's wagon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

fix someone's wagon fixes someone's wagon fixing someone's wagon fixed someone's wagon

Etymology

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

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 have someone's hide give it to someone give what for gruel malavogue nail someone to the wall penalize penance punish tan someone's hide tar out
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