church key

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The pie makes my mouth dry and I think I’ll have a nice drink of ginger ale till I realize you have to have some class of a church key to lift off the cap.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

"That's not the church key," said Lewis, staring at the one just hung up.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

It was not the church key, though it closely resembled it.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

One autumn evening, when it was very dark, he gave me the church key, and told me to go and fetch a Bible he had left in the pulpit.

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

He gave her the church key to take home.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore