oyster Idiom, Proverb
prairie oyster
the testicle of a young bull or bull calf Do you believe that some folks in Alberta eat prairie oysters?
the world is your oyster
the world is small beside your talent and skill With imagination - our greatest gift - the world is our oyster.
world is your oyster
(See the world is your oyster)
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Everything is possible for you; the world belongs to you; you can get anything you want.
When John won the scholarship, he felt as though the world was his oyster. The rich girl acts as though the world is her oyster.
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I was younger then, and the world was my oyster. In this term the oyster is something from which to extract great profit (a pearl). It was probably invented by Shakespeare in
The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:2): “Why then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.”