genie

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It doesn't matter because the genie is already out of the bottle.

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  1. noun A supernatural creature who does one's bidding when summoned.
  2. noun A jinni.

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  • Maybe a good wish you can ask your genie is the gift of teleportation. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Another inconvenient truth - the genie is out of the bottle and can ` t be stuffed back or, for that matter, sued back in. —  The Student Operated Press
  • It also shows how the genie is out of the bottle for using cell data as backhaul whether the cell operators like it or not. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • "Cairo" (Vertigo, $24.99) takes an Arab drug runner, an Israeli special-services soldier, a naive American activist, a would-be Lebanese-American suicide bomber, an Egyptian political writer and a jinn (what we Westerners call a genie) and throws them together in the eponymous City of Victory. —  Ottaway Online Editors
  • "Whether one likes casinos or doesn't, you want the right thing for Palmer or other communities, so it's very important that their ideas get incorporated into any legislation because once the genie is out of the bottle, it will never be put back in." —  theday.Com - Breaking News
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  1. French génie, spirit, from Latin genius, guardian spirit; see genius.

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  1. from Old French genie, French génie, genius, from Latin genius: see genius.
  2. A corrupt form of jinnee, by confusion with genius: see jinnee and genius.
 

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