THE GORDIAN KNOT

Definition: THE GORDIAN KNOT

1. To dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience.

Modern Usage: THE GORDIAN KNOT

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Gordian Knot (1911)
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Commercial Usage: THE GORDIAN KNOT

Domain	Title
Books	The Gordian Knot (reference) The Gordian knot in the Middle East (reference) (more book examples)
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Expressions: THE GORDIAN KNOT

Expressions using "THE GORDIAN KNOT": cut the gordian knot ♦ to cut the Gordian knot. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: THE GORDIAN KNOT

Language		Translations for "THE GORDIAN KNOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		elvágja a gordiuszi csomót (to cut the gordian knot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		快刀乱麻�'断つ (to cut the Gordian knot, to solve an extreme difficulty at a stroke). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かいとうら�"ま�'たつ (to cut the Gordian knot). (various references)

Pig Latin		ethay ordiangay otknay

Turkish		yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, lacerate, rend, rip, rip up, Rive, slash, slit, squirm out of, tear, tear to pieces), son anda çözüm bularak kurtulmak (cut the gordian knot), paçayı sıyırmak (cut the gordian knot, escape, have a narrow escape, live through, save one's bacon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: THE GORDIAN KNOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-k-n-n-o-o-r-t-t"
	-4 letters: denotation, derogation, dethroning, detonating, detonation, negotiator, rattooning.
	-5 letters: anorthite, attending, attorning, darkening, dehorning, dehorting, deratting, detonator, enrooting, hankering, hardening, harkening, integrand, inthroned, intonated, nattering, negotiant, nonghetto, nontarget, ratooning, rattening, rattooned, rhodonite, threading, threating, throating.
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