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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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).
Wiktionary
- n. Greek mythology A box given to Pandora by Zeus whose instructions that it must not be opened were ignored with disastrous consequences
- n. A source of unforeseen trouble
WordNet 3.0
- n. (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
Examples
“All our people to worry about and our House, all our enemies, all the unexpected catastrophes of nature and of man that seem to be ever present — and all the sins and piracies and devil's work of the past that are waiting to burst forth from our own Pandora's box as they do from time to time.”
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