the world is someone's oyster

谚语
中文释义
英 /ðə ˈwɜːld‿ɪz ˌsʌmwʌnz ˈɔɪstə/    美 /ðə ˈwɜɹld‿ɪz ˌsʌmwʌnz ˈɔɪstəɹ/

英文释义

谚语
  1. All opportunities are open to someone; the world is theirs.
    — Fal[staff]. I vvill not lend thee a penny. / Piſt[ol]. VVhy then the vvorld's mine Oyſter, vvhich I, vvith ſvvord vvill open.

词源

From the version of the play The Merry Wives of Windsor published in the First Folio (1623) of the works of the English playwright William Shakespeare (baptized 1564; died 1616): see the quotation. The original context was that Ancient Pistol would use force to obtain a loan from Sir John Falstaff, like prising open an oyster with a sword to obtain a pearl.
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