Swiss cheese en · NOUN
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Meanings
- (informal, uncountable) Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes
- (colloquial, uncountable) By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes.
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(colloquial, figuratively, uncountable) Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities.
[…] surprise and frustration when systems ultimately decay into a block of security Swiss cheese.
2004, InfoWorld, volume 26, number 13, page 26:"If people really knew the extent to which the Internet is Swiss cheese, they would freak out," Fancher says. As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts.
1999, Mark Fisch, Criminology, 1999-2000, page 103:
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yi שווייצער קעז (cheese with holes) · haw waiūpaʻa Kuikilani (cheese with holes) · ro șvaițer (cheese with holes) · pt queijo suíço (cheese with holes) · ru швейцарский сыр (cheese with holes) · ga cáis Eilvéiseach (cheese with holes) · nb sveitserost (cheese with holes) · es queso suizo (cheese with holes) · nl Zwitserse kaas (cheese with holes) · hi स्विस पनीर (cheese with holes) · fi emmentaljuusto (cheese with holes) · ka შვეიცარიული ყველი (cheese with holes) · cmn 瑞士奶酪 (cheese with holes) · ar جبنة سويسرية (cheese with holes) · pl ser szwajcarski (cheese with holes) · da schweizerost (cheese with holes) · de schweizer Käse (cheese with holes) · el ελβετικό τυρί (cheese with holes) · nn sveitserost (cheese with holes) · sv schweizerost (cheese with holes) · cmn 瑞士起司 (cheese with holes)