can of worms

Example Sentences

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Because no matter how successful these ventures look from the outside, the truth is you take the lid off the can and inside it’s a can of worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Nudleman prefers to use his Amazon Fire Stick’s voice search feature to look for specific titles he’s interested in, but that experience is its own can of worms.

From Salon • May 22, 2025

Mistakes, yes – but honest ones, only for the emergence of the Coote video to reopen a very large can of worms, presenting a crisis for Webb and PGMOL.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

X gives blue-check verification to anyone willing to pay for its premium services; this has opened a can of worms, especially among pop culture and nostalgia accounts.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2024

This one hangs out in the same crowd with hook, line, and sinker and lock, stock, and barrel. can of worms.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner