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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 23. The word origin today is
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silver bullet. So let's take a look at the note here. If something is a silver
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bullet, it seems like a simple and an immediate answer or solution to a
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difficult or complicated problem. So that's what we say. You know, they need a
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silver bullet. All right. So let's take a look here. Let's continue. The origin of
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this term is derived from , so it comes from this. It is derived from the fact that in
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many early werewolf movies or stories about or stories, the main way to
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kill a werewolf was to shoot it with a silver bullet through the heart. There
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were other references to the use of silver bullets from 19th century fiction
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to kill witches, Devils, and other evil supernatural beings. So yeah. So if it was
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that simple you could just shoot it with a bullet that would be quick and easy
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way to get rid of a really bad problem. So that's what we sometimes say you know
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they need a silver bullet or very often it might be used the way we give an
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example here we might use it in the negative. We might say there is no silver
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bullet. Like we can't just get rid of this problem very quick and easy by
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just like shooting something through the heart. There is no silver
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bullet to this problem. It is going to take time to work it out. Okay. Anyway, I
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hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.