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can of worms
n. pl. cans of worms Informal
A source of unforeseen and troublesome complexity.

can of worms - Based on an image of a container of maggots for use as fish bait.
See also related terms for worms.
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Noun1.can of worms - a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
trouble, problem - a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech


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Meanwhile, efforts to genetically modify bees that are resistant to predators and pathogens could also prove fruitful, although such high tech solutions are still untested and could open up other cans of worms.
Especially journalists and commentators, who are busy turning a possibly quite proper old bird into yet another agent of evil, and opening all kinds of cans of worms to feed it on.
At all events, the government, the Bank and the Financial Services Authority have been statutory companions in the Northern Rock fiasco, and cans of worms would have been opened had Mervyn King not been reappointed.
 
 
 
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