magic bullet

noun
something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.

Origin:
1965–70

magic bullet, silver bullet.
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magic bullet
 
n
informal any therapeutic agent, esp one in the early stages of development, reputed to be very effective in treating a condition, such as a malignant tumour, by specifically targeting the diseased tissue

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Magic bullet is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Medical Dictionary

magic bullet mag·ic bullet (māj'ĭk)
n.
A drug, therapy, or preventive therapy that cures or prevents a disease.

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silver bullet definition


and magic bullet
  1. n.
    a specific, fail-safe solution to a problem. (From the notion that a bullet made of silver is required to shoot a werewolf.) : I'm not suggesting that the committee has provided us with a silver bullet, only that their advice was timely and useful. , I don't know the answer. I don't have a magic bullet!
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magic bullet definition

jargon
(Or "silver bullet" from vampire legends) A term widely used in software engineering for a supposed quick, simple cure for some problem. E.g. "There's no silver bullet for this problem".
(1999-01-13)

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Example sentences
Once hailed as a magic bullet cure-all, psychedelic drugs are center stage of a
  new medical frontier.
Basically, it's the magic bullet we've all been waiting for: liquid hotness.
Since individual accounts are no magic bullet, restoring balance will require
  painful choices.
There will, it is true, be more drugs to prescribe as each subtype of each
  common disease gets its own private magic bullet.
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