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Definition of: open-sesame
(ō′pən·ses′ə·mē) noun
An unfailing means or formula for opening secret doors and gaining entrance. [From the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves where the door of the robbers' cave opened only at the magic conjuration “open sesame”]
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