fix someone's wagon

Meaning: (idiomatic)To causeinjury,distress, orinconvenienceto someone, especially aspunishmentor as acomeuppance.1946July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, inNew York Times, page31:When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediatelyfixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his firstmisplayof the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.2004February 19, Simon English, “Black 'threatened to sue every one of his directors'”, intelegraph.co.uk, retrieved 21 Oct. 2008: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 tofix their wagongood," said Mr Breeden.

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