Synonyms for pandora's box
pan·do·ra's box

Princeton's WordNet

1. Pandora's boxnoun

   (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

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1. Jesse Lilley:

   They are going to undo that Pandora's box and they don't know what is going to come out, betray them and then say we are going to have another election or another vote? People will just not bother. It will cause problems for the next twenty years.

2. Erik Fleming:

   They see it not just as a LGBT issue but as a Pandora's box being opened back up to allow discrimination, there's an old saying :' We’ve seen this movie before.'.

3. Stella Parton:

   [ People are ] afraid if they say anything it will open a Pandora's box... in this town, there's a code of silence that is deafening. You can hear a pin drop in this town.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   What I'm trying to do is do my day job. If we open up county prosecutors being able to call every member of the Senate based on some investigation they think is good for the country, we're opening Pandora’s Box.

5. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi:

   We call on all sides to remain rational and exercise restraint, and not take any escalatory actions that irritate regional tensions, and not open a Pandora's box, in particular, the U.S. side should alter its extreme pressure methods.