Synonyms of pandora's box

pandora's box

noun

as in trial

a source of many troubles; something that will lead to many problems

Their parents are understandably afraid of opening a pandora's box if they buy their oldest child a car.

Related Words

• trial
• hair shirt
• discomfort
• rub
• nuisance
• thorn
• headache
• inconvenience
• fleabite
• insult
• irritant
• ruffle
• pinprick
• affront
• exasperation
• frustration
• worry
• pest
• bother
• aggravation
• upset
• irk
• vexation
• predicament
• annoyance
• bugbear
• aggro
• plague
• cross
• offense
• burden
• menace
• hassle
• peeve
• albatross
• sore
• millstone
• curse
• anxiety
• plight
• botheration
• tribulation
• trouble
• affliction

Dissimilar Words

• pleasure
• joy
• delight

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pandora's box

The procedural vote yesterday was our effort to advance President Trump's important legislative agenda while disabling a discharge petition that would force proxy voting and open a dangerous Pandora's box for the institution. — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025

Advances in technology have opened an exciting possibility or perhaps stirred a Pandora's box. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Meta's plan to generate synthetic content tailored to individual users — which attracted little notice this week amid a slew of product announcements — opens a whole new Pandora's box in an AI world already full of them. — Ina Fried, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024

Both Cancer and Sagittarius possess a rich inner world similar to Pandora's box, each containing a wealth of complexities and unique attributes waiting to be explored. — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024

The police have had bomb disposal robots forever, but the Pandora's box of weaponizing them was originally opened by the Dallas Police Department. — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022

Blonde was a philosophical Pandora's box. — Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 19 Nov. 2022