See open sesame in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"3": "Sésame, ouvre-toi",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "French Sésame, ouvre-toi",
"name": "calque"
},
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"3": "-"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.\nNot, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!.",
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{
"form": "open sesames",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1899, William Wallace Cook, “Aquastor”, in Overland Monthly, page 15:",
"text": "\"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.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1905, John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, page lv:",
"text": "He who can read a true book aright has an open sesame to audiences with the great and wise of all time.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, William J. Palmer, Trial Tactics in California, page 57:",
"text": "Relevancy not always an open sesame having in mind the over-all authority and discretion of the trial judge.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Sympathy for a devil”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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"successful"
],
[
"means",
"means"
],
[
"achieving",
"achieving"
],
[
"result",
"result"
],
[
"magical",
"magical"
],
[
"technical",
"technical"
]
]
}
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"word": "open, Sesame"
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"word": "open, sesame"
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"word": "open Sesame"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "successful means of achieving a result",
"word": "taikasana"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "successful means of achieving a result",
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"archaic"
],
"word": "seesam"
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"sense": "successful means of achieving a result",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sésame"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "successful means of achieving a result",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiave di volta"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"raw_tags": [
"in imperative as a deverbal noun"
],
"sense": "successful means of achieving a result",
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "açıl susam açıl"
}
],
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"Antoine Galland",
"One Thousand and One Nights"
],
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