Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sürix qnomları" in Azerbaijani language version.
pocket was still worth twenty shillings, Harold Wilson damned them to be known for ever more as the gnomes of Zurich. ... where Gringotts Bank is run by goblins, the gnomes' uglier cousins, also traditionally cast as the bad guys in fairytales.
An unflattering term applied to Swiss bankers and financiers, alluding to their secrecy and speculative activity.
At the time, Swiss bankers were seriously upset about the label 'Gnomes of Zurich,' stuck on them by Britain's Labour ... We got along well and the great banker took his time to dispel 'all those nonsensical fairy tales' about gnomes and such.
In the metaphysics of midgetry, gnomes are bucolic, elderly, fairy-tale creatures, sometimes associated with riches: as, say, the gnomes of Zurich. Dwarfs are less reliable, discomforting; they evoke sympathy but it is mixed with fear.
The gnomes of Zurich, as international money speculators had been labelled by the Labour Party, were being given a hard fight. But for some ...
So, he snapped after a meeting 'the gnomes of Zurich are at work again.' T.R. Fehrenbach published 2 years later his bestseller 'The Gnomes of Zurich.' His book provided the first searching look behind the geranium-boxed barred windows
An unflattering term applied to Swiss bankers and financiers, alluding to their secrecy and speculative activity.
