'The world is your oyster' (hope I got the quote right)
2007-06-28 20:11:28 · 9 answers · asked by daddycool 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
THE WORLD IS AN (ONE'S) OYSTER - "If you have a lot of money, you can have anything you want. The proverb first appears in Shakespeare's play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600).'Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.' Act II, Scene II." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
: : A second reference says the phrase means: "All the pleasures and opportunities of life are open to someone because he is young, rich, handsome, successful, etc. Shakespeare invented or popularized this expression." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
2007-06-28 20:17:17 · answer #1 · answered by Nator 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you choose to open your mind to many ways of thinking and learning new information Your "oyster", or brain takes in new knowledge and closes. "No one can ever take knowledge away from you" because it is stored. If your "oyster" stays closed, you will develop a very narrow way of seeing things in life. I believe that everyone can learn new things and as our knowledge of the world expands we better ourselves as human beings.
2007-06-28 20:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by househorse298 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's correct.
If the world is your oyster, you have the ability and the freedom to do anything or go anywhere.
Nancala :)
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2007-06-28 20:19:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oysters make pearls aren't they like a precious stone? I would say the more you work at something the more wealthy you become??? I'm dumb I don't know either
2007-06-28 20:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by DJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you have the potential to do whatever you want to do.
Don't know what the origin of it is.
The oyster is pretty helpless, plus there might be a pearl in there.
2007-06-28 20:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by gehme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do anything you want - literally. The world is yours for the taking.
2007-06-28 20:15:06 · answer #6 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. I am both insane and genius 2. not true
2016-05-22 03:38:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you can feast on whatever you want (metaphorically) and that you have great fortune.
2007-06-28 20:14:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
open it up and there's the pearl!
2007-07-02 17:16:26 · answer #9 · answered by Buzzy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋