a fixed idea

an idea or opinion, not only firmly, but often obsessively held and unlikely to be affected by the argumentes of others

It was a question of wanting an entirely new thing, of undertaking a thoroughgoing renovation of yourself, `;in all simplicity, with the fixed idea: ça ira .';  BNCI

`;Give yourself up to the fixed idea: to become a painter.';  BNCI

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

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