fixing someone's wagon

Verb

fix someone's wagon (third-person singular simple present fixes someone's wagon, present participle fixing someone's wagon, simple past and past participle fixed someone's wagon)

1. (idiomatic) To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
   • When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.1946 July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, in New York Times, page 31

   Synonyms:

   give someone what for, take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, have someone's guts for garters