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.
接著他把手伸進口袋去掏萬能鑰匙。他剛才還拿在手里啊，但是現(xiàn)在沒有了。
Judge Pym ordered Apple to build special software that would essentially act as a skeleton key capable of unlocking the phone.
皮姆法官命令蘋果公司構建專門的軟件，充當解鎖該手機的萬能鑰匙。
To obtain a skeleton key, consumers can search antique stores or have one custom made by a company which supplies antique keys.
要獲得萬能鑰匙，消費者可以搜索古董商店或有一個習慣，由公司供應古董鑰匙了。

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.
FORBES: All Eyes on Google

A skeleton key is a key which has been specially made so that it will open many different locks.