gordian

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Egress 'gordian-know solution is to simply "not tangle much with transport," as Egner puts it.

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  1. To tie or bind up; knot. [Only in the following passage.] Looks bright enough to make me mad; And they were simply gordian'd up and braided, Leaving, in naked comeliness, unshaded, Her pearl round ears, white neck, and orbed brow. Keats, Endymion, i.

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  • DVDPlayer: gordian knot 2.45 and i'm trying to convert the movie "at worlds end: pirates of the carribean". i ripped the movie, it plays fine, no audio out of sync. but when i use —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Notify-OSD cuts the gordian knot of notify-spam by only letting you see one thing at a time, but that has its own problems. —  Planet Twisted
  • Egress 'gordian-know solution is to simply "not tangle much with transport," as Egner puts it. —  Betanews
  • I wish I'd had the skills to help her understand that no one liked our gordian knot scenario, but we were dealing with it as positively as we could. —  Squidalicious
  • On one occasion, to cut the gordian-knot, the king royally decided--"I will not argue that point with you, but answer as kings in parliament, Le Roy s'avisera" When they hinted at a Scottish Presbytery the king was somewhat stirred, yet what is admirable in him (says Barlow) without a show of passion. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
 

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  1. from Gordian, adjective, in allusion to the Gordian knot.
 

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