fix-it shop
2
3.0
- noun
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taller de reparaciones
Examples
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Not for a minute taking Jeff seriously, Ruth all the same found herself, the next day, approaching the fix-it shop into which Manfred's broken youth had been gathered.
Fiction book (1998) -
I took my broken toaster to the local fix-it shop for repairs.
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The fix-it shop specializes in mending bicycles and small household appliances.
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Whenever something in my house breaks, I always trust the fix-it shop around the corner.
Synonyms
314
1.0
A small workshop where someone makes or fixes things by hand
19
2.1
A place that fixes things like cars or home appliances
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
fix-it + shop
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'fix' (to repair) combined with 'shop' (a place of business) yields a place that repairs things. The 'fix-it' modifier follows a productive, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fix-it shop comes from the simple words fix and it, like when someone brings a broken radio and the person who fixes things says 'I'll fix it'. That's why the name means 'a shop that repairs household items'.