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open sesame

芝麻开门,芝麻开花节节高,开放的芝麻,敞开的芝麻

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.

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Examples

  • When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.

  • Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.

  • Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.

  • And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’

  • Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.

  • Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.

  • The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.

  • It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.

  • Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.

  • To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!