0 something that makes it very easy to achieve a particular thing:
The real truth is that none of us is completely holding the open sesame to the problems of inflation.
That is open sesame—it destroys the basis on which we have funded elections in this country thus far.
That is an open sesame to prices to start with.
If serious arrestable offences were the open sesame to those sources, suspects of such offences could overnight become legion.
To that extent, the motions are "open sesame"—not only for regulations, but possibly for taxation for specific purposes.
There is a great danger in treating the words "family court" as an open sesame which will solve all family problems.
The well-publicised, "open sesame" system invites complaints that would not have been thought significant in the past.
Reorganisation is a key to progress, but it is not always an open sesame.
