silver bullet

English

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Noun

silver bullet (plural silver bullets)

1. A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf.
2. (idiomatic) Any straightforward solution perceived to have great effectiveness or bring miraculous results.

   There is no silver bullet for this problem. It will take hard work and long hours to fix.

3. A cocktail somewhat like a martini.
4. (military, slang) A thermometer, especially one used for rectal temperature readings.

   The corpsman hit the marine with the silver bullet after he'd passed out on a march.

Hypernyms

• bullet

Translations

bullet made of silver

• Arabic: رَصَاصَة الْفُضَّة f (raṣāṣat al-fuḍḍa)
• Finnish: hopealuoti
• French: balle d’argent
• Greek: ασημένια σφαίρα f (asiménia sfaíra)
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• Italian: pallottola d'argento f
• Japanese: 銀の弾丸 (gin no dangan)
• Korean: 은탄환 (euntanhwan)
• Serbo-Croatian: srebrni metak, srebrno tane

solution perceived to have great effectiveness or bring miraculous results

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高招，良方

• French: solution miracle (fr), panacée (fr)
• Georgian: პანაცეა (ka) (ṗanacea)
• German: Königsweg m
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• Greek: μαγική συνταγή f (magikí syntagí)
• Italian: panacea (it) f
• Japanese: 特効薬 (tokkōyaku)
• Russian: серебряная пуля (ru) (serebrjanaja pulja)

cocktail

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See also

• magic bullet

References

• silver bullet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia