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."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Namrata	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali
Mayur	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Ernestine	['ə:nəsti:n]
Viktoria	vik-TO-ree-ah (German), veek-TO-ree-yah (Russian)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Allovera	-	Ancient Germanic
Carmelo	kahr-ME-lo	Spanish, Italian