Pandora's Box Definition

păn-dôrəz
noun
A complex situation fraught with problems and pitfalls.
Webster's New World
A source of many unforeseen troubles.
American Heritage
Something causing or leading to such a situation.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Greek mythology) A box given to Pandora by Zeus whose instructions that it must not be opened were ignored with disastrous consequences.

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Noun

Singular:
Pandora's box
Plural:
pandora-s-boxes

Pandora's Box Sentence Examples

  • Needless to say it opened up Pandora's box.

  • Kratos must find Pandora's box and use it to kill Ares, but he also lets out a thousand years worth of Olympian secrets.

  • Now, it wants open the Pandora's Box of genetically-engineered smallpox.

  • Well, shame on you for opening Pandora's Box with your infernal questioning!

  • They fear that he is going mad, and so they have commanded Kratos to find Pandora's Box and use it to kill his master.

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