Hurt – hit hard in return

Usage examples of fixer.

And Cog, that faceless fixer who seemed to have connections everywhere, had given him a high competency rating.

The possibility that the fixer might cut himself out of the deal made Neko realize just how dangerous Cog thought the situation.

He thought of Leyne again, the self-made battler, grasper, and fixer, his derision for experts.

I was beginning to realize that Tahlmeade was not merely a fixer, an intermediary, as the ambassador mistakenly thought, but that he must be the Tzaddik himself.

You import microbiota, nitrogen fixers, food, phosphorus, metals, power.

In the early stages of the Deathwatch, there was a definite high in watching the Congress reluctantly gearing up for a titanic battle with Richard Nixon and his private army of fixers who had taken over the whole executive branch of the government by the time he sailed triumphantly into his second term.

Which makes the loss of a key team player, the house futurologist and fixer, profoundly interesting to certain people: The walls have ears, and not all the brains they feed into are human.

If you bribed a traffic-court clerk two years ago to bury a drunk driving charge, the Fixer might suddenly confront you with a photostat of the citation you thought had been burned.

By bringing in hundreds of thugs, fixers and fascists to run the Government, he was able to crank almost every problem he touched into a mindbending crisis.

While Augie Bolcarro was living, he had appeared here at least once a week, and Toots Nuccio, the octogenarian fixer, had a large table in the corner where he kept court every day with his many vassals in politics and the mob.

The moment he had returned to London, clutching his precious film, he had hurried into the small pantry he had converted into a darkroom and checked to make sure he had everything on hand: film-processing tank, thermometer, spring-type clothes pins, four large beakers, a timer, and developer, stop-bath solutions, and fixer.

For more than a decade, George Wallace has bamboozled the national press and terrified the ranking fixers in both major parties.

Fixer Brothers were always impassive, but Carney knew, even as he spoke, that they were not pleased with his explanations.

The Fixer Brothers said something in complaint, and Carney was kneed in the guts and dumped on the floor.

It appealed to John's baroque taste and prompted memories of the victorious group-effigies erected by the Caudillo: the Crewsy Fixers, with drums and guitar, in highly compressed frozen confectioner's custard -- whether really to be eaten or not was not clear, though the sound of laughing chiselling was coming through at that moment.