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| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: In a fix. Many persons instead of saying "He is in trouble," or "He is in an awkward position," or "He is perplexed," or embarrassed, employ the vulgarism, "He is in a fix." Although Shakespeare may say, "This was the most unkindest cut of all," and De Quincey may write, "Poor Aroar cannot live and cannot die-- so that he is in an almighty fix," we lesser mortals are forbidden such expressions. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fox in a Fix (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Strong's dime caricatures. No. 3, South Carolina Topsey in a fix. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Barn-burners in a fix. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expression using "IN A FIX": be in a fix. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "IN A FIX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | olla pinteessä (be in a fix, be in a tight place). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | aufgeschmissen (be left stranded, stuck). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | pácban (in a spot, in a stew), nehéz helyzetben (between hell and high water), kellemetlen helyzetben, csávában. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inay aay ixfay fi la ananghie (be in a fix, be in a pretty mess, be on one's beam-ends, be reduced to extremities). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-n-x" | |
-1 letter: infix. | |
-2 letters: fain, inia, ixia, naif. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, fan, fax, fin, fix, nix. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, ax, fa, if, in, na, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-n-x" | |
+2 letters: affixing, fixating, fixation. | |
+3 letters: fixations. | |
+4 letters: affixation, infixation, reaffixing. | |
+5 letters: affixations, exfoliating, exfoliation, infixations, suffixation, transfixing, transfixion. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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