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What (who) is cut the Gordian knot - definition

KNOT IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, USED AS A METAPHOR FOR DIFFICULT PROBLEMS WITH LITTLE OR NO SOLUTION

Gordian knot; Cut the Gordian Knot; Alexandrian solution; Gordian Knots; Phrygian Knot; Cutting the Gordian Knot; Gordic knot; GORDIAN KNOT; The gordian knot; Gordian's knot; The Gordian Knot; Gordian knots

cut the Gordian knot

solve a difficult problem in a direct or forceful way.

Gordian Knot

The Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot

Gordian knot

n. to cut the Gordian knot

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Gordian Knot

The Cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius. It is thus used as a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem which is solved by exercising an unexpectedly direct, novel, rule-bending, decisive and simple approach to the problem that removes the perceived constraints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian Knot

Examples of use of cut the Gordian knot

1. Instead, we must cut the Gordian knot of fossil fuels, carbon emissions and economic activity.

2. Sometimes it‘s better to cut the Gordian knot; sometimes good fences do eventually make good neighbours.

3. When conflicts arise, the Kremlin has tended to cut the Gordian knot rather than attempting to untie it.

4. The heads of the Labor Party behaved similarly: When Barak had opportunities to cut the Gordian knot (at the Camp David summit and the Shepherdstown talks), he did not do so.

5. After several failed attempts to revise the contract, the Kremlin cut the Gordian knot by "persuading" the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company to sell a majority stake to the state gas company Gazprom for $7.5 billion.