Slang definitions & phrases for world is one's oyster, the
world is one's oyster, the
sentence
The person referred to is doing very well, is prosperous, is happy, has great prospects, etc: Before the crash his rich grandfather figured the world was his oyster
Idioms and Phrases with world is one's oyster, the
world is one's oyster, the
Everything is going well, as in I was younger then, and the world was my oyster. In this term the oyster is something from which to extract great profit (a pearl). It was probably invented by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:2): “Why then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.”