英语词汇open sesame的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	open sesame
词源	open sesame! Ali Baba, of course, overheard the robbers use these magic words to open the door of their cave of riches in the tale of “The Forty Thieves” from the Arabian Nights. Sesame is a common herb producing an oily seed long important in cooking and soapmaking in the lands of the Arabian Nights, so its use by the robbers is logical. If sesame is also a laxative, as several reference books say, then the thieves were also remark- able punsters.
随便看	bet one-s bottom dollar better a hash at home than a roast with strangers better half better late than never better mousetrap better to give than to receive betty between a rock and a hard place between grass and hay between scylla and charybdis between the cup and the lip there-s many a slip between the devil and the deep blue sea between the lines between wind and water between you me and the bedpost between you me and the lamppost beulah land bevinism beware of and eschew pompous prolixity beware of dog beware of greeks bearing gifts beware the ides of march beyond the pale be your age bhopal

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