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Open sesame
"Open sesame" in a Sentence (14 examples)
"The blue topaz was bought by me, from the chieftain of the tribe to which Quacal belongs. It is an ‘open sesame’ to his favor."
He who can read a true book aright has an open sesame to audiences with the great and wise of all time.
Relevancy not always an open sesame having in mind the over-all authority and discretion of the trial judge.
When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.
The hinges of the hall door were so stiff during Miss Magan’s tenancy, that Dr. Fleming, who as a cousin once ventured to visit the moneyed recluse, had to call at a neighbouring chemist’s for sweet oil ere he felt safe in crying ‘Open Sesame.’
Thus, one by one, the gates have been thrown open. God’s providence is manifest. “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.” The fable of Aladdin before the cave, crying “Open Sesame!” has been realized; and by this circumstance a tremendous emphasis is put upon the great commission of the Master, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.”
To Don Ramón González the heavy oak door opened of its own accord, and without crying “Open Sesame!”
Knaves and thieves do not lightly enter the workshop, merely by crying “Open Sesame!”
“You’ve lost your sense of direction—forgotten your geography! The Pyrenees lie south.” / “And I suppose you expect me to stand there in front of them crying ‘Open Sesame! Stand aside, crags and valleys! Here I come!’ ”
The shrewd performer crying ‘Open Sesame’ as he rubs his magic lamp before the Aladdin’s cave of show business should be careful to take out an insurance policy in the event of the non-appearance of the Genie.
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We teach that parliament is sovereign, as in a democracy it should be. But we know that judges too make law. As Lord Reid observed, we must accept that fact for better or worse, for we no longer pretend that the common law is hidden in some Aladdin’s cave waiting only for the judge to discover it by crying ‘Open Sesame’.
Satisfied that I was alone, I drifted over to the door and tapped it with my fingernail three times… two times… three times. “Open Sesame,” I murmured, as Rouffe worked his magic and the colours absorbed me.
‘Open Sesame,’ I murmured again, my hand still resting against the rock-wall. And slowly, right before my very eyes, my hand began disappearing into the wall.
He puffed out the muscles of his bare chest and touched me below with the scimitar, crying, “Open Sesame!”
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