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  • "Silver bullet"- A solution that is particularly effective, perhaps almost magically so. I believe it's derived from the werewolf mythology, which states that a werewolf is vulnerable to silver, making a silver bullet very effective in killing one. "One with a bullet"- Actually, I couldn't find "one with a bullet" anywhere... I suppose "number one with a bullet" is the preferred form. In any case, this comes from Billboard's charting system wherein any album whose sales rate is increasing has a bullet next to their listing, and each album also has a number ranking. Thus, a "number one with a bullet" is something that is the best and keeps getting better.

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