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michelledean | 17:11 Thu 01st May 2003 | Phrases & Sayings
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world is your oyster
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Take a look at http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/HaveOrigins.htm and scroll down the list on the left to the group "Phrases With Obscure Definitions" and to "W" in that group.
22:05 Thu 01st May 2003
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THis was excellent! Kind thanks
22:10 Thu 01st May 2003
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This saying first appeared in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor where Pisol, having been refused a loan of money by Falstaff, responds "Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open...". This quotation also clarifies the meaning of the saying - an enterprising person can open up the world like an oyster, possibly finding a pearl inside.
23:46 Thu 01st May 2003

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