idée fixe

[ ee-dey feeks ]

noun

, French.

, plural i·dées fixes [ee-dey , feeks],

1. fixed idea.

idée fixe

/ ide fiks /

noun

1. a fixed idea; obsession

Example Sentences

This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later.

From Washington Post

Both the melodic image and its model pursue him incessantly like a double idee fixe.

From Literature

Next we’ll see yet another useless Washington “summit” on yet another Obama idee fixe : eliminating nuclear materials.

From Washington Post

When she annoys him, he angrily declares: “You’re a woman with an idee fixe, as you demonstrated so dramatically when you precipitated your late paramour into the Stromboli volcano.”

From Washington Post

In the last decade, the notion of China becoming the world’s next superpower has become almost an idee fixe for many.

From US News