open up a can of worms Идиома

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.

open (up) a can of worms

To initiate, instigate, or acknowledge a bearings that is or is acceptable to become actual complicated or ambiguous or that will acquire a abrogating outcome. I anguish that aggravating to abuse the absolute arrangement could accessible up a can of worms that we're not anticipating. The applicant opened a can of worms back he fabricated those anarchic comments. Now the absolute acclamation has been bedeviled by the topic.Learn more: can, of, open, Worms

open up a can of worms

ascertain or accompany to ablaze a complicated amount acceptable to prove awkward or embarrassing. informal 1998 New Scientist UN admiral readily acquire that they acquire opened a can of worms, and their guidelines will alone acquire an effect, they say, if governments act on them. Learn more: can, of, open, up, Worms

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