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Posted on: Tue, 07/28/2009 - 15:31
Oyster

Yesterday I was listening to the English song and there was a phrase "The world is your oyster now...". As I understand it means "You are your own master and you can do what you want". I wonder what is the origin of such an idiom?


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Posted on: Fri, 03/05/2010 - 16:08 #1
Shakespeare invented and/or popularized it.

This idiom is more often used to mean you can do what you want because the world is yours. The whole world is available to you or yours for the taking, and so you can do anything you want.

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Posted on: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:09 #2
the world is your oyster

When the world is your oyster, you can take what you want from life with ease. Taking what you want from life is as easy as taking a pearl from an oyster.

Thanks,

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