Brewer's: Letter-lock

A lock that cannot be opened unless certain chosen letters are arranged in a certain order.

“A strange lock that opens with A M E” Beaumont and Fletcher: Noble Gentleman.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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