0 an idea for solving a problem, especially one that is not very good:
He refused to embrace any of the fashionable nostrums then current in development economics.
Within two centuries they made the mare nostrum their own sea.
As noted in our first section, public reformers eventually attack those who resist their personal-improvement nostrums.
A further feature of the genre is that the efficacy of the proposed nostrums crucially depends on how the problem itself is defined.
Proprietary drugs (or patent medicines) have long been described in highly anachronistic terms, as "nostrums" marketed by "snake-oil peddlers," or as products whose manufacture and sale are equated with quackery.
Pascha nostrum is generally written very carefully.
Their nostrum has been to come up with marvellous plans, models and re-arrangements as a means of diverting attention and dodging the main issues.
They are simply so many doctrinaires with their nostrums, and they show no appreciation of human nature in dealing with this question.
It may well be logically untidy, but there can be no clear-cut answer; there is no nostrum for our economic ills.
