fix someone's wagon

Meaning

Verb

To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.

Related

Similar words

take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson

Origin

From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.

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