open sesame

NOUN
  1. any very successful means of achieving a result
  2. a magical command; used by Ali Baba
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How To Use open sesame In A Sentence

  • A university degree isn't always an open sesame to a good job.
  • It appears to be a kind of picklock, an open sesame, Tanner -- Tawno! the one is but a modification of the other; they were originally identical, and have still much the same signification. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
  • It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
  • A science degree can be an open sesame to a job in almost any field.
  • And if the parasite can, as some of our peasants believe, open all locks, why should it not have served as an “open Sesame” in the hands of Aeneas to unlock the gates of death? Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  • A science degree can be an open sesame to a job in almost any field.
  • It appears to be a kind of picklock, an open sesame, Lavengro
  • Academic success is not always an open sesame to a well-paid job.
  • A science degree can be an open sesame to a job in almost any field.
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