fix someone's wagon

present singular third person fixes someone's wagon · participle present fixing someone's wagon · participle past fixed someone's wagon · past fixed someone's wagon

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

   According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. […] "He was going to fix their wagon good," said Mr Breeden.

   2004 February 19, Simon English, “Black 'threatened to sue every one of his directors'”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 21 Oct 2008

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   When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.

   1946 July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, in New York Times, page 31

   Synonyms: give someone what for, take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on