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Open Sesame noun phr. E19.
[The magic words by which, in the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, the door of the robbers' cave was made to open. Cf. SESAME.]
A (marvellous or irresistible) means of securing access to what would usu. be inaccessible.