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magic wand

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noun

  1. a thin rod brandished by a conjuror in peforming magic tricks

  2. any seemingly magical solution to a difficult problem

    there is no magic wand for us to fix it

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He added: "I haven't got a magic wand. Things don't always happen immediately, but it will happen."

From BBC

He kept the most precious things in it, like pink shells he’d found at the beach, ticket stubs, a race car, a stick he found that could have been a magic wand, and taped to the inside lid was a class photo from when Pili was in the fifth grade.

From Literature

“There’s no free lunch, there’s no magic wand that makes all the problems go away,” said Fervo CEO Tim Latimer.

From The Wall Street Journal

No magic wand or special potion is needed -- only light.

From Science Daily

"There isn't a magic wand, there isn't anything one of us can do," he said, adding he had tried to be "frank and honest" in his campaign.

From BBC