英和和英

ことわざ

the world is one's oyster

1. All opportunities are open to someone; the world is theirs.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 45, lines 2–5:

     Piſt. Why then the world's mine Oyſter, which I, with ſword will open.

派生語

• the world is one's lobster

参考

• carpe diem
• seize the day
• take the bull by the horns
• the world is one's lobster