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Swiss Army knife

Noun

Meaning

Any of a class of multi-function pocket knives or multitools, having a blade and various tools, such as screwdrivers and can openers.

(figuratively, by extension) A tool that has many functions, one for every perceivable need.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused! Christine Lavin

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health. Matthew Walker

Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison. Mark Haddon

My mother always kept her thirty-year-old Swiss Army knife in her purse and she used it and a portable cutting board, which usually hung over the kitchen sink, to administer the snacks. Source: Internet

This extraordinary cookbook that the New York Times has called "the Swiss Army knife of cookbooks" received a face lift late last year as the 75th Anniversary Edition was published. Source: Internet

The man is a Swiss Army knife of creativity. Source: Internet

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