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Definition of Open sesame
1. Noun. Any very successful means of achieving a result.
2. Noun. A magical command; used by Ali Baba.
Definition of Open sesame
1. Interjection. Open up! ¹
2. Noun. Any successful means of achieving a result, ''especially'' means that are magical or technical, or otherwise beyond the understanding of most people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Sesame
Literary usage of Open sesame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"open sesame "IT WAS once upon a time" — so the fairy stories begin. 1 At that
particular time there was a government clerk, ..."
2. Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American Society by Max O'Rell, Jack Allyn (1889)
"The open sesame of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.—The Childish Side of
American Character. —The Three Questions Jonathan puts to every Foreigner who ..."
3. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and by Walter Jekyll, Alice Werner, C. S. Myers, Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1907)
"open sesame. ONE day there was a very hard time, ... They say " open sesame."
An' they go in an' t'row in the money, an' when they coming out of the house ..."
4. Income: An Examination of the Returns for Services Rendered and from by Scott Nearing (1915)
"Corporation Accounting—An open sesame to Business Facts The issuing of corporate
securities provided the first accurate measure of the volume of invested ..."
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