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Gordian
[ gawr-dee-uhn ]
adjective
- pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot the Gor顎僤ian knot顎 that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- resembling the Gordian knot in intricacy.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- cut the Gordian knot, to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation; solve a problem boldly.
Example Sentences
The tangled wars in Sudan, Ethiopia and their neighbours cry out for bold action - and if he were so minded, Trump might cut the Gordian Knot.
"I think we've seen a significant change this year. It's what I call an assertive transparency campaign," says retired Colonel Raymond Powell of Stanford University's Gordian Knot Centre.
Essentially, by plugging the equations of the Standard Model into powerful computers, researchers can numerically approximate the mess of hadronic blobs, cutting through the subatomic Gordian knot.
The Gordian Knot Center launched in 2021 with funding from the Office of Naval Research.
鈥淚f you鈥檙e in the middle of providing abortion pills, inevitably that in this country right now is going to become a Gordian knot for your company,鈥 he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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