(idiomatic) to cut the Gordian knot

complex (not simple or straightforward)

(literally) a tangled cord or string / (figuratively) a muddle, a jumble, chaos, a disordered state

sharp sword

to sever / to end

solution, settlement / (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made; resolution

(transitive) solve, resolve, settle (a problem, a trouble, a criminal case) / (intransitive) be solved, be settled / (intransitive) can be solved; be soluble

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend