open Pandora's box (English, verb)
expansion: open Pandora's box (third-person singular simple present opens Pandora's box, present participle opening Pandora's box, simple past and past participle opened Pandora's box)
Senses:
glosses: To perform an action that causes problems to appear which did not exist beforehand, or were not known about prior.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: opens Pandora's box
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opening Pandora's box
tags: participle
present
form: opened Pandora's box
tags: participle
past
form: opened Pandora's box
tags: past