See admiral of the Swiss Navy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1948, Everett Francis Briggs, New Dawn in Japan, page 105:",
"text": "When he came to the query, \"What is your occupation?\" the man of the cloth replied (facetiously, as he thought) , \"Oh, I'm an admiral of the Swiss Navy.\"",
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"ref": "1952, Frontier - Volume 4, page 12:",
"text": "Having done so, its Pyrrhic victory put its officers in positions of admirals of the Swiss Navy.",
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"ref": "2002, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Randall E. Auxier, Lewis Edwin Hahn, The philosophy of Marjorie Grene, page 80:",
"text": "Portmann started as a marine biologist (as he remarked, that was rather like being admiral of the Swiss navy), and moved on to studies in comparative zoology.",
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"ref": "2012, John Lloyd Wright, My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright:",
"text": "“Here comes the Admiral of the Swiss Navy,” remarked the portly, red-faced one, who then proceeded to laugh uproariously at his own wit.",
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"ref": "2012, Howie Carr -, Hard Knocks:",
"text": "He snorted. “President of the City Council? That's like being admiral of the Swiss Navy.”",
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