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can of worms

complex problem or complicated situation It opened up a large can of worms when the company decided to talk about the union contract.

open a can of worms

(See can of worms)

open a new can of worms

Idiom(s): open a (new) can of worms

Theme: DIFFICULTY

to uncover a set of problems; to create unnecessary complications. (Informal. Can of worms means "mess.")
• Now you are opening a can of worms!
• How about cleaning up this mess before you open up a new can of worms?

Opening a can of worms

If you open a can of worms, you do something that will cause a lot of problems and is, on balance, probably going to cause more trouble than it's worth.

can of worms|can|worm|worms

n., slang, informal 1. A complex problem, or complicated situation. Let's not get into big city politics that's a different can of worms. 2. A very restless, jittery person. Joe can't sit still for a minute he is a can of worms.

like aperture (up) a can of worms

Likely to accept complicated, wide-reaching, or adventitious after-effects or ancillary effects, abnormally ambiguous or abrogating ones. I anguish that aggravating to adapt the absolute arrangement bureaucracy could be like aperture up a can of worms that we're not anticipating. I appetite to abode the affair with the boss, but it's consistently like aperture a can of worms bringing up being like that with him.Learn more: can, like, of, opening, Worms

can of worms, it's a/like aperture a

Introducing a complicated botheration or baffling dilemma. The allegory alludes to the alive allurement of fishermen. In a jar or added container, they anatomy an adherent tangle, wriggling and entwining themselves with one another. The appellation is American in origin, dating from the mid-twentieth century. Learn more: can, like, of, opening

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