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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. Pandora's box

    Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. Hesiod reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing physical and emotional curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more on the contents than on Pandora herself. The container mentioned in the original account was actually a large storage jar, but the word was later mistranslated. In modern times an idiom has grown from the story meaning "Any source of great and unexpected troubles", or alternatively "A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse".

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  1. pandora's box

    Pandora's box is a phrase or term deriving from Greek mythology which refers to a source of endless complications or trouble arising from a single act or decision. It is usually used to describe a situation where a seemingly small or innocent action may lead to severe consequences. The phrase comes from the story of Pandora, the first woman on earth, who was given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but her curiosity led her to disobey, releasing all evils into the world, leaving only hope inside.

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  1. Pandora's Box

    Pandora's Box was a female pop music group assembled by Jim Steinman in the 1980s. Some of its members had previously worked with Steinman, in the ensemble Fire Inc., on the album Bat Out of Hell, on live shows and on other studio recordings. They produced one concept album, Original Sin, released in 1989.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pandora's box in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pandora's box in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of pandora's box in a Sentence

  1. 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.'.

  2. Hillary Clinton:

    He has made it possible for all the worst impulses, it's like Pandora's box, you lift the top off and things start flooding out. That's difficult to get back in the box.

  3. Emmanuel Macron:

    We would open the Pandora's box. There could be war.

  4. Greg Valliere:

    Uncle Sam would be An FTT. Uncle Sam's a pandora's box that should not be opened.

  5. Rahul Gupta:

    What's driving this transition by opening this Pandora's Box, because now it’s basically a matter of chemistry, and you can create a number of compounds, is ultimately profits, the profits of transnational criminal organizations is what is driving both the shift, but also this innovation.


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