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can of worms
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a can of worms (informal)
a situation which causes a lot of trouble for you when you start to deal with it. Quite what we do with all the waste generated by this industry is another can of worms. Once you start making concessions to individual members of staff, you really open up a can of worms. (= cause a lot of trouble for yourself)
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Knapp earlier planned a ballot proposition that would require that the city sel the DWP to a private utility company, but she said she decided that idea "opene all kinds of cans of worms and was too ambitious of a task.
Potential ballot measure seeks to force DWP to take ax to budget by Rackham, Anne / Los Angeles Business Journal
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