Timeline for Etymology of "fixing someone's wagon"
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| Jan 12, 2018 at 17:27 | vote | accept | coblr | ||
| Jan 10, 2018 at 19:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/951168561548062720 | ||
| Jan 10, 2018 at 12:15 | comment | added | Oldbag | My mother (b.1936) always said: "I'll fix your *little red wagon!"* - in the sense of 'taking someone down a peg' or, humbling them in their arrogance. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 5:14 | comment | added | Drew | See what the dictionary says about some of the seemingly opposite meanings of fix, which evolved perhaps by ironic use. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 4:43 | answer | added | Phil Sweet | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 2:11 | comment | added | Will Crawford | @GEdgar it's not really clear what you're answering - that link seems to just be a "gee, I dunno" response? | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:41 | comment | added | GEdgar | answers.com/Q/Where_does_the_phrase_fix_his_wagon_come_from | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:40 | comment | added | Will Crawford | Link to back up @Lawrence | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | Lawrence | Fix can mean something like sabotage, with the right context. It's a versatile word, spanning not only the extremes of typical auto-antonyms but also the middle portion as well. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:32 | history | edited | Lawrence |
Removed tag:entomology (study of bugs) and replaced it with tag:etymology
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:18 | history | edited | 1006a | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typo
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:13 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | You want etymology, unless you're sure the phrase is a bug. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:06 | history | asked | coblr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |