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cut the Gordian knot

verb as in solve a difficult problem

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The tangled wars in Sudan, Ethiopia and their neighbours cry out for bold action - and if he were so minded, Trump might cut the Gordian Knot.

From BBC

"He cut the Gordian Knot with Kasusu."

From Literature

Sir Bill Cash, who founded the Maastricht Referendum Campaign in the early 1990s, said: “Like Alexander the Great, Boris has cut the Gordian Knot.”

From The Guardian

Long-time eurosceptic lawmaker Bill Cash said Johnson had saved Britain’s democracy from four decades of “subjugation” to Brussels: “Like Alexander the Great, Boris has cut the Gordian knot.”

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Embracing that possibility would cut the Gordian knot of the Irish border at one stroke.

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