world is one's oyster, the

world is one's oyster, the idiom
Everything is going well, as in 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.”

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Comments (1) Add Your Comment

-the world is full of opportunity
-you seek to make your fortune in the world
-you believe that the world is for your taking/ you can conquer the world

Posted by divya 38 days ago.

Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.