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The original password, proving every lock has a weakness: words.
means A magic phrase (or any trick) that instantly opens something otherwise locked or inaccessible.
from Straight from 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,' a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights — Ali Baba overhears thieves command a cave door to open with these words. Why 'sesame' specifically is debated: some point to the tiny, easily-popping sesame seed pod as a fitting image for a door springing open, but no one can confirm the storyteller's exact reasoning. The phrase leapt from folklore into everyday English as shorthand for any key, code, or trick that grants instant access.
- origin
- First appeared in Ali Baba, 1001 Nights
- why sesame
- Pods burst open when ripe, unlike other seeds
- real lesson
- Even magic needs the right credentials
- legacy
- Ancestor of every lazy password ever typed