fixed idea

George had gone off with one fixed idea in her mind.

Try not to start out with too many fixed ideas of what is going to happen.

There seemed to be a widespread and fixed idea about this.

All his words and acts are controlled by a fixed idea.

Ted had a fixed idea of who Marion was, and why she'd left him.

He was a man of fixed ideas and a firm believer.

Every psychosis is the development of a single fixed idea.

I wanted to reply that one could not write any books without fixed ideas.

If a fixed idea be madness, she was perhaps not remote from it.

Was that a fixed idea from the word go?

"People formed some very fixed ideas about the kinds of places they like living in a long time ago."

At that time, he had no fixed idea of how he wanted to make a living.

It is too early, at this stage, to have fixed ideas about the substance of any changes.

He's come here with a fixed idea, which he's been looking forward to for half his life.

"Must he not always entertain the fixed idea of returning to England?"

"We all have fixed ideas of what our children should do at different ages.

Many windsurfers have very fixed ideas about how they should look and feel.

It was an absolutely fixed idea in her mind.

The engineer was not a man who would allow himself to be diverted from his fixed idea.

"They come in with very fixed ideas of what they want."

He would have had too many fixed ideas to undo in their minds.

Rather strange he should have just that fixed idea.

Or perhaps it is a fixed idea in an absurdly shifting world.

Perhaps he's right not to attach too much importance to the Bible and to fixed ideas.

It shows that you've come here with fixed ideas.