Pandora's box

Pan·do·ra's box  (pn-dôrz, -dr-)

n.

A source of many unforeseen troubles: "Reform is a Pandora's box; opening up the system can lead to a loss of economic and political control" Russell Watson.

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Pandora's box

Noun

a source of many unforeseen difficulties [a box, in Greek myth, from which all human problems were released]

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Noun

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Pandora's box - (Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it; she gave in to her curiosity and opened it; all the miseries and evils flew out to afflict mankind Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks