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Open sesame   /ˈoʊpən sˈɛsəmi/   Listen
Open sesame

noun
1.
Any very successful means of achieving a result.
2.
A magical command; used by Ali Baba.





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"Open sesame" Quotes from Famous Books



... not dower them. Really, they needed no dower with their good looks, for they were all pretty. The Madison Avenue mansion gave them the open sesame into good society—choice society, in fact—and there some wealthy trio of unattached young men must see and fall in love ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... urged the patient Jesus. But the poor fishermen thought he meant his human name to be a talisman, a sort of "Open Sesame," when he was striving all the time, by precept and deed, to show them that they must ask in his character, must be like him, to whom, though of himself he could do nothing, yet all ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


Words linked to "Open sesame" :   bidding, way, command, bid, agency, dictation, means


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