See fix someone's wagon on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From an archaic sense of fix, \"to fix in place, render unable to move\", which survives in the word affix.",
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"ref": "1946 July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, in New York Times, page 31:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2004 February 19, Simon English, “Black 'threatened to sue every one of his directors'”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 2008-10-21:",
"text": "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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"To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "punish",
"word": "給...點兒顏色看"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "gěi...diǎnr yánsè kàn",
"sense": "punish",
"word": "给...点儿颜色看"
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"sense": "punish",
"word": "給...點兒顏色看"
},
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"roman": "gěi...diǎnr yánsè kàn",
"sense": "punish",
"word": "给...点儿颜色看"
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"word": "zadać bobu"
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"word": "fix someone's wagon"
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