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单词 cut the Gordian knot
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cut the Gordian knot

Solve or remove a problem in a direct or forceful way, rejecting gentler or more indirect methods: Kirk may cut the Gordian knot by booting me out...
  • I'm trying to devise some kind of way by which we can cut the Gordian knot… without going through the bureaucracy.
  • So why not end this piecemeal approach - and cut the Gordian knot by granting citizenship to all Japan-born Koreans?
  • We haven't been particularly skilled at that, and perhaps no foreign sword could cut the Gordian knot of an old, stubborn culture.
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