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Silver bullet   /sˈɪlvər bˈʊlət/   Listen
Silver bullet

noun
1.
A simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem.





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"Silver bullet" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be a shuffling way of accounting for a bad shot. If a hunter grossly missed his aim he would ask, 'Who shot last with this rifle?'—and hint that he must have charmed it. The sure mode to disenchant the gun was to shoot a silver bullet out of it. ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving


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