If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re part of the problem problem Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
Come unstuck
Courier Express. Today’s delivery problems solved tomorrow (Courier Express advertising slogan)
Crisis management
Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
Cut the Gordian knot
Dance around the problem
Dickens of a time
Don’t kick a man when he’s down
Duck the question
First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
Frequently asked question
Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem (Political slogan)
Have a cow
Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
Hitch your wagon to a star
Houston, we have a problem (John Swigert Jr. quotation)
Identity crisis
If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
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