gnomes of zurich

gnomes of Zurich

Swiss financiers or bankers regarded as having sinister influence - derogatory

This phrase stems from a remark made by the British politician Harold Wilson in a speech in 1956 : all the little gnomes in Zurich about whom we keep on hearing.

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