fix someone's wagonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

fix someone's wagon (三人称単数 現在形 fixes someone's wagon, 現在分詞 fixing someone's wagon, 過去形および過去分詞形 fixed someone's wagon)

1. (idiomatic) To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
   • 1946, John Dreibinger, "Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2," New York Times, 24 Jul., p. 31:

     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.

   • 2004, Simon English, "Black 'threatened to sue every one of his directors'," telegraph.co.uk, 19 Feb. (retrieved 21 Oct. 2008):

     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.

同意語

• take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson