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Gordian knot: intricate knot tied by the Phrygian king Gordius, and cut by Alexander the Great, Cym. II. ii. 34 “As slippery as the was hard” ; fig. H5 I. i. 46 “Turn him to any cause of policy, The of it he will unloose.”
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