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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

It was not the church key, though it closely resembled it.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

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

Hunt just glanced upwards, and saw it was the veritable church key.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

"That's not the church key," said Lewis, staring at the one just hung up.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood


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