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Pandora's box definition

Pandora's box

  1. a complex situation fraught with problems and pitfalls
  2. something causing or leading to such a situation

Etymology: see Pandora

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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