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Switzerland

/ˈswɪtsɚlənd/ noun C2
  1. A neutral party in a dispute; one who does not take sides. (figuratively, uncountable) · I’m not getting involved in this argument. I’m Switzerland.
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In the meantime we shall treat ourselves to a couple of carpet-bags, encourage the manufactures of the countries through which we travel, and make our way at our leisure into Switzerland, via Luxembourg and Basle.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 117 · B2
When we were in Switzerland he followed us with Moriarty, and it was undoubtedly he who gave me that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 30 · C1
The proposal was too advantageous to be refused, the more so as the person for whom the yacht was intended had gone upon a tour through Switzerland, and was not expected back in less than three weeks or a month, by which time the builder reckoned upon being able to complete another.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 269 · C1
Then he had eaten some without saying a word more; Danglars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 678 · C1

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