admiral of the Swiss Navy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who appears important but is not.
    — When we sailed from San Francisco on the Snark I knew as much about sickness as the Admiral of the Swiss Navy knows about salt water.

词形变化

admirals of the Swiss Navy plural

词源

From the fact that Switzerland is a landlocked country, so the Swiss Navy (although it does, in a sense, exist) is of little importance.
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