Swiss Army Knife

Definitions

1. A tool or component that does many different things reasonably well. In engineering slang, swiss army knife solutions are valued for convenience but sometimes criticized for lacking focus.

   In plain English: A versatile tool that can do many different jobs.

   Example: "Their internal CLI had become a swiss army knife for deploys, logs, feature flags, and emergency toggles, which was useful until discoverability became a problem."

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