open Pandora's box
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Verb[edit]
open Pandora's box (third-person singular simple present opens Pandora's box, present participle opening Pandora's box, simple past and past participle opened Pandora's box)
- (idiomatic) To perform an action that causes problems to appear which did not exist beforehand, or were not known about prior.
- 2022 August 4, Adam Nayman, “Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present”, in The New York Times[1]:
- It’s a thin line between charming, candy-flavored verisimilitude and craven commercialism, and if Spielberg ultimately stayed on the right side of it, “E.T.” nevertheless helped open a Pandora’s box of product placement.
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to perform an action that causes problems
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