fix it

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A vulgarism of recent origin, but now very common. It is heard in such phrases as, 'I will not do so and so any how you can fix it,' or still worse, 'no how you can fix it,' i. e. not in any way that you can arrange it; not by any means.


A wet day is considerable tiresome, any way you can fix it.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 2.

If I was an engineer, I'd clap on steam--I'd fire up, I tell you; you wouldn't get me to stop the engine, no way you could fix it.--Pickings from the Picayune.

The master called them up, and axed them the hardest questions he could find in the book, but he couldn't stump 'em no how he could fix it.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 36.

Workin' aint genteel nor independent, no how you can fix it.--Pickings from the Picayune, p. 74.

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