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“Fix one’s wagon” Does this mean to teach someone a lesson? Do you use this expression in your region?
“Fix one’s wagon” Does this mean to teach someone a lesson? Do you use this expression in your region?
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In my area, it’s “I’ll fix his little red wagon!” They will be taught a most proper lesson
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Yes, we use that expression in the Midwest. It means that you will do something to ‘get back’ at a person for an assumed wrong.
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I always thought it means to upset a person’s plans or progress, to prevent a person from carrying out his intentions, to undermine a person, to defeat a person’s schemes. And to do so because it is perceived that the person is out of line or has done or is doing a wrong….
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Yes, that’s what it means. I’m Canadian and 50, I’d say it’s at least Canadian, if not North American, but it’s mostly used by people of my parent’s generation or older.
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Nanny Boss says: I’ll fix her a*&^s!
In Staten Island, we say: Pay back’s a b*&ch;
What goes around, comes around!!
What you do to others, will come back to you thrice!!
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We say that, but more common, we say fix their a$s
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Try this:
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