Oyster

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  • "the world is my oyster" - phrase meaning the world offers opportunities for profit.
  • "Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open." Pistol, (2.2.3-4) from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor", his only comedy set in England.
  • oyster = world, just as the following reference to Atlas who carried the world upon his shoulders
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