skeleton key

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Then, he reached into his pocket for skeleton key which he had just had in his hand, but it wasn't there.
接着他把手伸进口袋去掏万能钥匙。他刚才还拿在手里啊，但是现在没有了。
Judge Pym ordered Apple to build special software that would essentially act as a skeleton key capable of unlocking the phone.
皮姆法官命令苹果公司构建专门的软件，充当解锁该手机的万能钥匙。
To obtain a skeleton key, consumers can search antique stores or have one custom made by a company which supplies antique keys.
要获得万能钥匙，消费者可以搜索古董商店或有一个习惯，由公司供应古董钥匙了。

Apart from the Simpson masterpiece, Louisiana recently has hosted the filming of Oscar-winning biopic Ray (about Ray Charles) and the thriller Skeleton Key.
FORBES: Magazine Article
There are even more nooks and crannies to snoop around in, skeleton key in hand, looking for clues about the nature of the relationship between Lewis Carroll and his young muse Alice Liddell.
NEWYORKER: Then She Fell
As a skeleton key for the Internet, Google in five years has grown from an academic exercise in search of better ways of finding stuff on the Web into a prodigious advertising business beloved by users, sought by a hundred thousand advertisers, coveted by Wall Street and envied--or reviled--by a swarm of rivals.
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A skeleton key is a key which has been specially made so that it will open many different locks.