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church key

NOUN
can opener
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The pie makes my mouth dry and I think I’ll have a nice drink of ginger ale till I realize you have to have some class of a church key to lift off the cap.

From The New Yorker Feb. 15, 1999

He gave her the church key to take home.

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

But it was not at him that Tommy pointed reassuringly; it was at the monster church key, half of which protruded from his tail pocket and waggled like the hilt of a sword.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

One autumn evening, when it was very dark, he gave me the church key, and told me to go and fetch a Bible he had left in the pulpit.

From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No hope! the church key and the vestry key are on the same ring—both inside there!

From The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins




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