silver bullet

noun

First recorded in 1930–35; from the belief that supernatural beings, as werewolves, can be killed with a silver bullet

The truth is that intersex just might be the silver bullet in the culture wars about sex and gender.

Weiner will pay out for focus groups and polls, trying to find the silver bullet that will put the past back in his pants.

In his New York Times column Sunday, Ross Douthat calls this sort of thinking the “demographic excuse,” a silver-bullet “fantasy.”

“There is no silver bullet when it comes to this issue,” Panetta told reporters on Monday.

Again, when exploring this topic Pearlstein is frank in stating up front that there is no silver bullet solution here.

But it wasn't a leg: it was a gun, loaded with a silver bullet that had been charged home with prayer.

One of the neighbors cut off the wolf's tail with a silver bullet, the appendage being for many years preserved by the Indians.

By shootin' with a silver bullet run outen a mould thet's done been rubbed with willow-sprigs.

Meanwhile, instead of replacing the silver bullet in his cartridge belt, the Lone Ranger put it in his pocket.

Often when sportsmen miss, they claim that their gun is bewitched, and avail themselves of the sure silver bullet.

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