Meaning of the world is someone's oyster | Babel Free

Definitions

All opportunities are open to someone; the world is theirs.

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Examples

“Fal[staff]. I vvill not lend thee a penny. / Piſt[ol]. VVhy then the vvorld's mine Oyſter, vvhich I, vvith ſvvord vvill open.”

“But his wants were not at first great; and though his ambition was perhaps high, it was not of an impatient nature. The world was his oyster; but, circumstanced as he was, he knew it was not for him to open it with his lancet all at once.”

“Irregular gentlemen, to whom the world's their oyster,—said oyster does suddenly snap-to on them, by a chance.”

“The world may be your oyster, but that doesn't mean you've found the pearl.”

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