Meaning of open, sesame | Babel Free

Definitions

Phrase. [B2]

Examples

“As we come to the gate (the guy driving says, “Open, sesame”—really!), it swings open to reveal a 20-foot-high wall-of-water fountain and a broad avenue lined with palm trees.”

“He said a boisterous “Open, sesame” and the door swung wide.”

“Janesco clumped to the command console and said the scientific-age equivalent of “Open, sesame.””

““You know me, Garbles, I’m your bud. Whacha got there?” Frank reached out and tried to grab the page, but Gary saw it coming and dodged. / “My hands only,” said Gary. “Look, but don’t touch.” / “OK, OK. Open, sesame.””

““Habit is ten natures,” went on being proclaimed in my ears; and at last it came home to me as a weighty saying, which might contain the educational “Open, Sesame!” I was in quest of.”

“This is where education steps in, crying, “Open, Sesame!” to the locked secrets of nine-tenths of a universe, and causing to pass before the eye the variegated life and literature of nations inhabiting the uttermost parts of the earth.”

“After 1900, however, when prosperity came to Canada, reciprocity was almost forgotten, for there was now no need for it; evidently there were other ways of opening the cave of wealth than that of crying “Open, Sesame!” to the United States market.”

“Soon he came to the rock and recognised it by its smooth surface and the great tree which grew above it on the hill. He stretched forth his two arms towards it, crying: “Open, Sesame!” and at once the face of the rock gaped to let him pass.”

“She levered open the passenger door. It swung out like some Ali Baba mountainside to my unspoken “Open, Sesame.””

“But as I finished reading my broker’s letter, a phrase where he said: ‘I will take care of any sums to be carried forward’ brought to mind an almost equally hypocritical and professional expression, that the bath-house girl at Balbec had used when speaking of Albertine: ‘I took care of her personally,’ she had said. And these words, which I had never before recalled, had the effect of crying ‘Open, Sesame’, making the hinges of the dungeon spring open.”

“BB said the word door and I thought, “Open, Sesame!””

“The carving was where I remembered it was. My palm fitted just fine, and I even saw a weak blue spark in the Sapphire, but nothing happened – none of the walls parted. “Open, Sesame,” I murmured, pressing harder, but the result was the same.”

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