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The World is Your Oyster

An idiom from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600) by William Shakespeare.

-The person in question is literally influential to the point that he/she can be compared to having the world in his/her possession,

-The person in question has a lot of choice in some matter.
For your final project, you can choose from any of these assignments- The World is Your Oyster
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The World's Scapegoat

The United States of America. The country that gets blamed for basically everything that goes wrong, just because it's the solo super power.
Person 1 : Dude, global warming is fucking the world up...
Person 2: It's The World's Scapegoats' fault. The USA...
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The World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.
The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.
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The World Is Quiet Here

The main slogan for the Volunteer Fire Department.
I didn't realise this was a sad occasion.

The world is quiet here.
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The World Over Heaven

A stand In JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Eyes of Heaven that is an ascended version of The World to obtain heaven one must have a friend they can trust and must obtain the soul of 36 sinners they also must remember the phrases: Spiral staircase
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Singularity point

Secret emperor. Then one should go to these coordinates: North latitude, 28 degrees, 24 minutes, West longitude 80 degrees, 36 minutes and wait for a new moon which by then heaven will arrive and something new will be born
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The World Just Don't Spin Like That

Things simply do not work that way; not the way life goes.
"I wish Welch's Fruit Snacks had a reasonable amount of snacks in the pouches"

"Yeah, that's too bad man, The World Just Don't Spin Like That."
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the world is my oyster

I can do whatever I want in this world.
From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor:
Why, then the world is my oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
(2.2.3-4), Pistol to Falstaff

I'm rich biaaatch!
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