fix someone's wagon
verbEtymology
From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.
Definitions
To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a…
To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
- 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA