Refers to either of two strategies for reducing the distress/fatigue/boredom of performing an extra-disagreeable task; you either "layer" the labor --- i.e., perform a few minutes' work on the yucky job, then go do something else for a while, then return and work some more on the drudgery-task, then take another break with less-agonizing labors to again relieve your feverish emotional suffering, and so on --- like the cheese and lunch-meat in a sandwich, or else you "poke holes" in the disgusting task --- i.e., perform one or more smaller random bits of the job at a time as your gumption permits, so that the overall endeavor becomes more and more "fragmented and hollowed" (like the holes in Swiss cheese) as time goes on --- until the task eventually gets wholly completed by being gradually-but-steadily "chipped away at" over the course of a few days until it's all gone.
I soooo didn't wanna clean out all da musty crap in da storage-shed out back... the task seemed just too daunting and tedious to try to tackle all in one go. So I decided to Swiss-cheese the job instead --- just kinda "picking at the edges" of the jumbled heap over the course of a couple weeks --- and eventually I had the entire pile removed and the floor nicely swept out again.
by QuacksO July 14, 2018
Get the Swiss-cheese the jobmug. by Moneymaker_colt_93 February 28, 2025
Get the Swiss cheesemug. When someone says something incredibly dumb expecting a laugh but no one laughs and the room goes silent
by myleslikesman April 4, 2022
Get the Swiss people speak cheesemug. by Mars-------------Uktor March 17, 2021
Get the Swiss Cheesemug. You've heard of swiss cheesing where the make more holes, well instead reverse swiss cheesing someone removes them
by Imnotadumbass24 August 22, 2025
Get the Reverse Swiss Cheesemug. When you're trying to call someone and they can't hear you, shout "Swiss Cheese!" and they should look.
by spawnables January 26, 2015
Get the Swiss Cheese!mug.