Swiss

Related to Swiss: Swiss Army knife, Swiss steak, Swiss Bank

have more holes than Swiss cheese

To be extremely unsound or flawed. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Mark's idea has more holes than Swiss cheese.
See also: cheese, have, hole, more, Swiss

Swiss bank account

A bank account held in Switzerland. Such accounts are highly confidential and are only identified by a number, rather than the owner's name. I suspect they're putting the embezzled funds into a Swiss bank account because we haven't been able to trace it. How are we going to get information on this transaction if it's going into a Swiss bank account?
See also: account, bank, Swiss
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

more holes than Swiss cheese

mainly AMERICAN
If an argument, theory or plan has more holes than Swiss cheese, it has very many faults and problems. The current laws have more holes than Swiss cheese. Jackson claimed the system had more holes in it than Swiss cheese. Note: Swiss cheese is used in various other ways to describe an argument or theory like this. In my view it's a Swiss cheese you have there, not a case. Jones criticizes what she sees as Miller's `Swiss-cheese thesis'. Note: `Swiss cheese' is an American term for cheese such as Emmenthal, which has round holes in it.
See also: cheese, hole, more, Swiss
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • have more holes than Swiss cheese
  • cheese it-the cops!
  • Cheese it the cops!
  • be full of holes
  • be chalk and cheese
  • cut the cheese
  • say cheese
  • Say cheese!
  • chew the cheese
  • cheese it, the cops
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Swiss Ambassador to the Philippines Ivo Sieber and Philippines' Bureau of Export Promotion Executive Director Senen Perlada noted of efforts to achieve a balance bilateral trade even as they also acknowledged the challenge being faced by Filipino exporters in exporting to Switzerland at yesterday's press conference for the upcoming Swiss trade and investment mission to the Philippines, the first Swiss business mission in five years.
PH, Switzerland agree to narrow down trade gap
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) signed a memorandum of understanding on implementation of the Tajik-Swiss Intellectual Property (TSIP) Project.
Switzerland awards grant to Tajikistan for project on protection of intellectual property rights
ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani delegation would visit Switzerland from August 26 to 28 to negotiate with Swiss authorities to upgrade the existing Pak-Swiss Tax Treaty, Parliamentary Secretary for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan said Friday.
Pakistan delegation to visit Switzerland to up grade Pak-Swiss tax treaty