silver bullet

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   a simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem

   “no silver bullet can make the world safe from terrorism”

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Questions about silver bullet

What does silver bullet mean?

silver bullet means "a simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem".

Is silver bullet a common word?

silver bullet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.