Last month at the White House, he was discussing the problem of sexual assault in the military.
“There is no silver bullet to solving this problem,” he said.
Even when it comes to preventing gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden told video game manufacturers that there’s “no silver bullet.”
In long ago stories of werewolves, we were told it took a “silver bullet” to do them in.
The Brothers Grimm wrote that it took a silver bullet to kill an otherwise bullet-proof witch.
The Lone Ranger used silver bullets to add luster to his fight for justice in the Old West.
Now, the absence of “silver bullets” is a frequently offered excuse for why a national problem cannot be solved quickly. It’s now part of political and presidential parlance, referring to a quick and easy remedy to a problem that otherwise defies solution.
On the campaign trail last year, Mr. Obama spoke of his proposals to boost the economy while quickly admitting “it’s not a silver bullet.”
He used the same phrase to explain why he couldn’t quickly bring down rising gasoline prices.
“There are no quick fixes or silver bullets. If somebody tells you there are, they're not telling you the truth,” he told an audience in New Hampshire in March of 2017.
He would give that answer again and again.
- Obama laments no “silver bullets” to fire, CBSNews.com, June 20, 2013.
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