What does fix mean slang

get (one’s) fix (of something)

To acquire a required or necessary amount of something, especially that which one is addicted to or compulsively seeks. When I was a junkie, I would do just about anything in order to get my fix. I just can’t get my day going until I get my fix of caffeine.

To acquire a required or necessary amount of something, especially that which one is addicted to or compulsively seeks. When I was a junkie, I would do just about anything in order to have a fix.

Definition of fix (someone) with

—used with words such as stare, look, gaze, etc., to say that a person is looking directly at someone in a certain way She fixed him with an angry stare.

Fixed medicine reactions, are common and so named because they recur at the same site with each exposure to a particular medication. Medications inducing fixed medicine eruptions are usually those taken intermittently.

Definition of get a fix on

1 : to determine the exact position of something (such as a ship or an airplane) We’re trying to get a fix on the ship’s location. 2 : to get an accurate understanding of something Voters are still trying to get a fix on her character.

verb, euphemism To spay or neuter an animal so that they can no longer produce offspring. … verb To influence the outcome of something, often through illicit means.

Fly in the face of means to directly challenge something or act in defiance of something, as in His bold behavior flies in the face of everything we expect from a vice president.

a difficult or slightly dangerous situation that you cause by your own silly behaviour: She’s always getting into silly scrapes – I wish she’d think before she does things.

to understand clearly what something is like. You need to make sure you’ve got a good fix on just how bad the problem is. Synonyms and related words. To understand something.

: one that quenches or dampens enthusiasm or pleasure.

a gentleman at large : a man without a job. … Having sold off his factory, he is now a gentleman at large. a gentleman of leisure : a man who does not have to work.

Eager to hear something, listening attentively, as in Tell me who else was invited? I’m all ears. [Colloquial; late 1700s] Also see all eyes.

Green” means “inexperienced“. ” Wet behind the ears” means “inexperienced”. ” Green behind the ears” is a malapropism which clearly also means “inexperienced”.

Note: If you say that an event is the last nail or the final nail in the coffin of something or someone, you mean that it finally destroys something or causes someone to fail. A rent increase could be the final nail in the coffin for a small business like this.

phrase. If someone has an axe to grind, they are doing something for selfish reasons. [informal, disapproval] He seems like a decent bloke and I’ve got no axe to grind with him. [ + with]

The idiom wet behind the ears is a reference to a newborn baby, still wet with amniotic fluid. It is an American phrase, coined around 1902, though Edward Bulwer-Lytton used the phrase not yet dry behind the ears in the novel The Parisians in 1873.

to hit the roof to go through the roof

or to go through the roof. phrase. If you hit the roof or go through the roof, you become very angry, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone. [informal]

Blue Around the Gills Meaning

Definition: Look ill or nauseated. This expression describes someone who is in need of fresh air because he or she looks sick or unwell and possibly wants to throw up. It is a temporary state of being, and never a terminal illness.

Abandon someone, force someone to bear the responsibility or blame. For example, Her friends said they were too busy to help with cleaning up, and left Lucy holding the bag. This expression is often put as be left holding the bag, as in When they quit the clean-up committee, Lucy was left holding the bag.

When you’re idealistic, you dream of perfection, whether in yourself or other people. For example, you might have the idealistic goal of bringing an end to childhood poverty in the world. The adjective idealistic describes someone whose plans or goals of helping others are lofty, grand, and possibly unrealistic.

An expression used of people who closely resemble their parents in some way: “Mark just won the same sailboat race his father won twenty years ago; he’s a chip off the old block.”