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something that's supposed to solve all problems

In Greek mythology, Panacea is the goddess of healing. In older use, it often refers to something that heals all medical conditions.

I am skeptical of political panaceas and always look for the unintended consequences.

The treatment helps, but it's no panacea.
Grandpapa says it is a panacea.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
His panacea was somewhat in the nature of an anti-climax, but at least it had the merits of simplicity and of common sense.
Hornung, E. W. -- Dead Men Tell No Tales
Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills.
Jerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
It has taken me all these years to find my tipple, Bunny; but here it is, my panacea, my elixir, my magic philtre
Hornung, E. W. -- Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions.
Dickens, Charles -- Bleak House
It's just all cloaks, sentiment and spiritual rouge and panaceas.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Grandpapa says it is a panacea.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
There is no panacea (let me note) against the shock of meeting.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
But there is frighteningly little evidence that his strategy was the crime panacea that he and the media deemed it.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
Sending in a dollar bill wasn't a panacea, but it was very easy to do.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
A panacea for everybody, you know?
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
This impossibility He calls love, and this same monotonous panacea can be detected under all He does and even all He is—or claims to be.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
He was getting some vague comfort out of a good cigar, but it was no panacea for the ill which affected him.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Then she met Champ Perry in the post-office—and decided that in the history of the pioneers was the panacea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
The good woman no sooner felt the gold within her palm, than her temper began (such is the efficacy of that panacea) to be mollified.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
'Mo's panacea, the one he guarantees will cure you if it doesn't give you cardiac arrest.'
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He will talk quickly and eagerly about nothing at all, snatching at any subject as a panacea to pain.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

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