As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term Swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more???

What is an alternative term for Swiss army knife?

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term Swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more?

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more???

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term Swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more???

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "one stop shop" is an adequate alternative, maybe there are more???

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification: The term swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

• The Swiss army knife for writing books.
• Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
• Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more???