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"can of worms" Definitions
  1. Informal
  2. a source of many unpredictable or unexpected problems: Buying a company we know nothing about would be opening up a whole new can of worms.

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Essentially, [adding more characters] is a can of worms—a real big and expensive can of worms.
"Can of Worms" (1999) - THE POSTER HAS A GIANT WORM.
Yeah, this is a can of worms Australia could've done without.
No pun intended, but it opens a big can of worms.
This doesn't just open a can of worms: It nukes one.
"[Donald Trump] is opening up a can of worms," Ahmad said.
And so, a whole can of worms just opened as we expand.
Yet such systems could also open up a legal can of worms.
Clearly not everyone agreed, but let's not reopen that can of worms.
Make no mistake: To ask these questions opens a can of worms.
"I opened up a can of worms," he said in an interview.
This week's group date opens a real can of worms — literally and figuratively.
But I moved for love, and it opened up a can of worms.
Rating: 1 freshly opened can of worms Steven Adams climbed a pyramid barefoot.
This temporary tea-induced nirvana opened up a can of worms for Hardin.
"I feel like prewar is a can of worms for ownership," she said.
And which I think opens up a whole other can of worms, right?
On obstruction of justice though ... well, that's a whole other can of worms.
Man, this has really opened up a whole can of worms in my brain.
And then Photoshop and digital photography opened up a whole new can of worms.
But a whole other can of worms has been opened by Dan Rua and Admiral.
Superhuman has opened a can of worms for the entire email industry, apology or no.
It opens a whole process can of worms but I think it was worth doing.
He'd already called for the federal recognition of the Lumbee (a whole can of worms).
A can of worms is set to explode, though it comes with a long fuse.
Not Congress – that would just reopen the whole can of worms FDR closed in 1934.
Comedian Adam Hess recently opened a can of worms when he made just such an observation.
Now, with the physical presence requirement made obsolete, the Quill "can of worms" has been opened.
Its introduction was already delayed for a year; a further delay would reopen a can of worms.
It's a can of worms we've opened, I'm embracing each day and I enjoy what I'm doing.
Like fake news and trending topics, the feature could become the social network's latest can of worms.
"Once we break ground, it's going to open up a whole new can of worms," he said.
And with Section 203 weakened, there's no telling what can of worms might be opened in the future.
That opened a whole new can of worms, specifically whether Trump secretly records things in the White House.
"If it [the vote] is a narrow stay, then it just opens another can of worms," Roche said.
Instead, it will likely open up the next can of worms in an increasingly competitive and contentious relationship.
That meant the computer needed to be able to identify and make sense of colloquialisms and idioms — as well as certain dialects or industry-specific terms — such as "open a can of worms" or "hardly helpful" (previously, an AI system might think someone was actually opening a can of worms).
"They should never take documents from the employer because it opens up a whole can of worms," Marzigliano said.
Denham readily admitted to the committee today that the sprawling piece of work had opened a major can of worms.
Exposing that background to a worldwide audience, however, has already proven to be a cultural can of worms for Brazilians.
"If this is a broader battle between two superpowers for global influence, it's a whole can of worms," he said.
Anyone familiar with Black Greek life knows what a can of worms is opened when Jamilah agrees to these terms.
Unlocking a phone is one thing — actually tying that feature to your bank account is another can of worms entirely.
It wants to avoid opening a can of worms that could see it compelled to apologise for other colonial outrages.
But then South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy went on CBS and appeared to pop open the can of worms. Watch.
A formal change would be opening a "can of worms" that OPEC would not want to do, the source added.
Through that lens, it might not be worth opening the can of worms that would come with challenging the decision.
In other words, he helped open the can of worms that contained today's freely available and nearly unbreakable encryption methods.
Just saying that a cacao comes from Ecuador opens a can of worms because there are so many genetic varieties.
And if it turns out the subpoena is rejected because no such tape exists, that opens up a can of worms.
Here's an example of a can of worms that could theoretically be opened up under block-granting: drug-testing Medicaid recipients.
Trump was apparently oblivious to the can of worms this would open about his own past and that of his family.
Koenig also raised concern about opening up a "can of worms" if the energy tax breaks are attached to the bill.
"One of the major dangers of online therapy is opening a can of worms that cannot be adequately contained," she writes.
But, he notes, the pick of Lighthizer "opens up a whole can of worms" about how that's going to be done.
And her crusade opens up a whole new can of worms that Star Wars may come to wish it had left untouched.
But too many GOP senators opposed that amendment last week, so the motion to proceed could open up a can of worms.
Which opens up a whole new can of worms for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is basically all cans of worms already.
But Pruitt potentially opened up another can of worms by saying that he did not personally pay Hupp for her apartment hunting.
Japan-style yield-targeting would let the ECB focus on underperforming papers but risked opening a legal can of worms, analysts said.
"You've got to understand that I had no idea of the can of worms that I was about to open," she said.
Beijing's decision to stick by Lam makes sense, replacing her would have opened a can of worms in an already unstable environment.
Things only get worse when LeeAnne Locken confiscates the very problematically-named "El Señor Hottie Blackie," which is its own can of worms.
But by invoking a little-used national security loophole to justify his belligerence, he may be opening an even bigger can of worms.
Women in bras, like Pepper Potts in Iron Man 3, were also excluded because female objectification is a whole other can of worms.
Now, a company called TeenSafe is opening a whole new can of worms by adding the option to track Tinder usage, Mashable reports.
"You're opening a can of worms," Ron Rivest, a cryptographer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told a separate RSA audience.
" Despite this abiding attraction to otherness, at lunch I asked Audiard what had led him to open that can of worms with "Dheepan.
Seeing Clinton's emails was a whole new can of worms — quick emails to her staff, as well as longer, formal emails to other people.
Deep down, I worry that once I open that can of worms, there are only two outcomes, and I don't like either of them.
Ms. Dietsch, who lives in Omaha, worried that her phone call to the state would "open a can of worms" for Mr. Steffen's family.
"The argument that this would open up a can of worms, where would it end — it just doesn't make sense to me," he said.
Some of Turnbull's colleagues are concerned about the "can of worms" this will open up, as one minister told me shortly after the announcement.
"This opens up a can of worms because the senators don't get to vote on calling individual witnesses," said a former senior administration official.
When to use: You've walked into an awkward situation, or just stumbled upon a major internet can of worms that you'd prefer not to open.
But the executive order opened a potentially bigger can of worms, since families will still be indefinitely detained in immigration facilities, even when they're together.
"This whole climate change is a big can of worms," says Ignatius Rigor, coordinator of the International Arctic Buoy Program at the University of Washington.
Essentially, they opened a can of worms and had only a limited time to… sort them, or whatever it is you do with the worms.
But we're opening a whole can of worms by allowing a human inside our homes when we aren't there: What if he slips and falls?
Clinton was cruising until FBI Director James Comey reopened that particular can of worms with his letter to Congress only 11 days before the election.
Find someone that you can feel comfortable to discussing taboo subjects with, opening a can of worms that has wonderful implications for your sex life.
Whether I run again is a totally different can of worms, that has to do with family things, business, wanting to do some different things.
Along the way, the politicians are also opening a can of worms about how Spain was reconstructed in the 1970s after Francisco Franco's long dictatorship.
Because this is such a potential can of worms, the court ruled, Congress must be super-clear that this is what it had in mind.
For me, it actually opened a completely new can of worms that may never get resealed — and this the most frustrating aspect of this entire ordeal.
In other words, this is a new, freshly opened can of worms for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump, and corporate America — and it's a mighty big can.
I'd already been dieting for years with no major weight loss (perhaps because I was just the average chubby adolescent, but that's another can of worms).
I asked, and Mathews said, that he doesn't see them as threats in this area, simply because it would open a can of worms for them.
One of the major dangers of online therapy is opening a can of worms that cannot be adequately contained and makes things worse instead of better.
"I went to lunch with one of my girlfriends on Thursday and she told me something," Hubbard says, clearly hesitant to open the can of worms.
KALEIDOSCOPE Toby Jones plays an ex-convict whose mother (Anne Reid) disrupts his efforts to reacclimate to life outside and opens a psychological can of worms.
Unfortunately, scale is also what allows a tech company of this size — and with this obligation to investors — to open a whole other can of worms.
Jaime Griesemer With Halo we'd started all these different threads in the story, going different ways, and we opened this big can of worms with the multiplayer.
Scheduling lease auctions through legislation can also open a can of worms, according to Tommy Beaudreau, the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
And I'm still choosing to ignore all this NFL stuff (but I know I can't forever), because that's another whole can of worms (worms being toxic masculinity).
"A can of worms" (August 12th) looked at different ways of measuring inflation in Britain and rightly pointed out that no one figure can account for it.
I am not sure that Esther is entitled to see a letter that was intended for another's eyes and that may well open a can of worms.
It quickly becomes impossible for the university or college to remain a neutral curator in this process, opening up a messy can of worms along the way.
That's great for the contents, which stay fresher longer, but it opens up a whole can of worms for a consumer who wants to reduce their carbon footprint.
Sites of human genocide and irradiated quarantine zones seem like fairly obvious candidates for exclusion, but they open a can of worms that Niantic would be responsible for.
In this case, the litmus test of abortion opens up a whole new can of worms for Lipinski when it comes to which constituents he's okay leaving behind.
A knee-jerk reaction like that, in such a volatile and critical global arena, has opened a can of worms the likes of which we have never seen.
Here's an investigation of one such situation — a secretive Romanian factory that makes Louis Vuitton shoes — and my guess is it may well open a can of worms.
When some of the kids seemed upset by three or four postcards featuring nude art, I immediately took them away, but figured the can of worms had been opened.
Investors may not like the uncertainty that higher rates could bring — but firing the Fed chair 10 months into his term would be a different can of worms entirely.
" Asked what her full 'can of worms' investigation has highlighted for her, Denham summed it up as: "A disturbing amount of disrespect for personal data of voters and prospective voters.
While this all may seem cool and futuristic (if not also a little strange), humanoid robots open up a whole ethical can of worms, especially in the realm of sexuality.
"With the euro losing favor, given the messy can of worms that has been tipped over in Europe, that's helping the U.S. dollar weather its own political uncertainties," he said.
Others believe allowing and making that that legal would open a can of worms with unpredictable consequences, such as causing a diplomatic incident, or impeding a legitimate law enforcement investigation.
"That's just opening a disastrous can of worms, because then it becomes a ridiculous race to the bottom, where the Internet is censored by the most restrictive jurisdictions," he said.
"With the euro losing favour, given the messy can of worms that has been tipped over in Europe, that's helping the U.S. dollar weather its own political uncertainties," he said.
The debate over what to do with DACA recipients opened up an immigration-related can of worms that has simmered in the background for the better part of two years.
He could certainly end up deciding not to open a "messy can of worms" by requiring JAMS arbitrators to reveal whether they have an equity stake in the arbitration firm.
The issue of unconscious bias around size is, of course, a much bigger can of worms (one that encompasses everything from the legal system to housing authorities, in addition to media).
I'm looking for a book that will teach him something fascinating about the world, but won't open up a can of worms when I try to talk to him about it.
Listen, we can't open the "Who does Thanksgiving best" can of worms — but I think we can agree that celebrities know how to do it better than the rest of us normals.
While that issue might still be at the forefront for some committee Republicans, getting the company's chief executive on the stand will open the entire can of worms on Google's recent controversies.
Henry discussed renaming the public street with the previous mayoral administration in Boston, but they "did not want to open what they saw as a can of worms," he told the Herald.
Mr. Crispin said he worried that Mr. Phay Siphan's comments would "open a can of worms" in Southeast Asian countries where journalists already face official intimidation, such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
These apologies, despite Rowling's protestations, are clearly designed to open a can of worms in the Harry Potter fandom, and the reply-to-fav ratio on this tweet proves she more than succeeded.
If the Supreme Court holds that RFRA permits Tanvir to sue the FBI agents, in other words, it could open up a can of worms that could deeply undermine federal anti-discrimination law.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has said an attempt by France to give an online privacy ruling global force is opening up a "disastrous can of worms" and could spur global censorship.
Kanye West has deleted all his tweet since January 1st (about his Trump hat, which is a whole other can of worms) but it wouldn't be a bad idea to turn on notifications right now.
Banking analysts say a Royal Commission could open a can of worms and expose top executives, who have so far avoided direct responsibility, to intense scrutiny about what they knew about malpractices in their firms.
Of course, that's a whole other can of worms, since those questions were about his use of language toward women and could potentially be the jumping-off point for more discussion of Wayne being problematic.
Nonetheless, the Trump administration appears poised to go further than the Obama administration ever would, since it was fearful of opening a legal can of worms that could undermine press freedoms on the United States.
One gets the sense that she's opened a can of worms with Luke that she won't be able to close, but Lorelai and Emily do manage to find some equilibrium at the end of the episode.
China accidentally opened a can of worms when it released a video this weekend purporting to prove that an imprisoned Uighur musician was alive and well, contrary to recent reports that he'd died in Chinese custody.
While adding that the banking industry has already been hit by regulatory changes and higher costs of capital, Leung adds that if a Brexit happens then it will open a whole "new can of worms" and challenges.
Perhaps the beefier wrists are harder to get under the chin, perhaps not many guys have shot on him because he's far more hurtable on the feet and his ground game is an unnecessary can of worms.
Do I want to open this can of worms right now or do I want to deal with these four other things that are going to result in a heart attack if I don't deal with them?
The White House attorney then jumped to the repercussions if the Senate demanded Bolton's testimony, urging them to take heed to what would happen if it opened up a can of worms by bringing in multiple witnesses.
It was time, they decided, to abandon digital methods and rely on the old ways, gathering data over the phone and doing the math by hand — a decision that would open a whole new can of worms.
Spotify appears to have opened a can of worms with its hate content policy, and no matter how well-intentioned the rules may be, it could prove difficult to enforce them in a way that satisfies everyone.[Mashable]
As a result, the students who are most likely to get in — in addition to recruited athletes and legacy admissions, which involve a whole other can of worms — may include those who get outside help with their applications.
When I asked Ligman what they would do with all of Bezos' money, they noted that trying to change the world with money opens up a moral can of worms; better to do away with the system entirely.
And though the F.B.I. says this is a one-shot deal important to a terrorism investigation, Apple executives believe writing that software would open a can of worms for law enforcement in the United States and around the world.
It always starts off with something like Brand Nubian or Onyx, which opens up a whole can of worms as far as songs and playlists and then three hours later we're all sitting there in silence because we're burnt.
I don't know how we can get there from here, but it's nice to imagine that in another version of our universe, human beings never opened this particular can of worms and consequently live slightly better than we do.
It was about La David Johnson, one of the four US soldiers recently killed in Niger, whose death became a political football when Donald Trump opened a totally unnecessary can of worms about phone calls to gold star families.
Mayor Bill de Blasio may have opened up a civic can of worms when he promised to wipe "symbols of hate" from city property, ultimately creating a commission to consider what to do about potentially offensive statues and monuments.
It is a big, particularly rank can of worms, and the Diack damage, along with the Russian federation's suspension from the sport, raises the question of what might be done for athletes who have missed out on their rightful rewards.
"We just should not be going down the path of permitting discrimination with government funds, and there's no reason to open up this can of worms," Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, told BuzzFeed News.
Yep, it is, and I think one of the things — and we'll talk about it in another episode at some point — is that the retail job disappearance, how that's going to change everything, but that's a whole nother can of worms.
" She added: "But, it can only happen after we crack open the whole can of worms and get really comfortable with the uncomfortable reality that there is no one way to be a perpetrator...and there is no model survivor.
Weber's season was a complete and utter mess, full of bad decisions from all involved, but no one is one-dimensional enough to be The Bachelor Villain™ — not even Peter's mother Barb, who is a whole other can of worms.
This approach, as laid out, could open up a can of worms, however, effectively creating "fast lanes" for companies that can afford dedicated pipes offered by broadcasters, so it will be interesting to see where Sinclair and technology take that basic idea.
As far as what else is coming next, Maggie has opened a whole can of worms with her slip of the lip, and it's only a matter of time before Teddy returns and Amelia finds out about her and Owen's past tryst.
REIMS, France/PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron might have hoped he was striking a note for modernity and openness in announcing an international competition to design a new spire for Notre-Dame cathedral, but he may have opened a can of worms instead.
Her homecoming opens a weighty can of worms: Bridget's brother, Nick (Michael Shannon), wants their father (Robert Forster) to put Ruth in a facility; Bridget begins to re-evaluate her marriage; and Nick opens up about his father's flippant view of his business.
You may have been tested for polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, and fallopian tube blockages, and your partner may have had his sperm analyzed for abnormalities (assuming you're in a different-sex relationship — if you aren't, it's a whole other unreasonably challenging can of worms).
"That would just open up such a huge can of worms of all the things we haven't heard Blac Chyna say — the real secrets she has, those would all come spilling out," said Tamar Arminak, an attorney who has represented Amanda Bynes and Nicole Richie.
Her departure would cause more problems for Beijing than it would solve, with no obvious successor in place -- unlike when Lam stood in the wings for her equally unpopular predecessor CY Leung -- and a selection process that would open another huge can of worms.
If she was okay, or sleeping, sometimes he would fish, settled against a tree on the riverbank, a small can of worms beside him, the line lying slack in the slow, muddy river current, flotsam piled in the eddies, empty milk jugs and beer cans and tiny sticks and trash.
While the potential for activist funds to hinder or even scupper the deal with the Bain-led consortium will depend on how many join forces in opposition, Argyle's letter underscores some fears that Toshiba had opened a potential can of worms by tapping activist shareholders in its new share issue.
Trump is not only the first businessman to be president—itself a huge can of worms—but he is also the first largely failed businessman to be president, meaning that he has a complex web of debt that could result in even the most mundane government decisions being considered conflicts of interest.
" She continued: "I would only open up that can of worms of pain and grief and trauma when I was doing these interviews, because I think a lot of us did have to push our emotions and our pain aside because we felt that we needed to do it for the cause.
And let's think about the way Vanderpump Rules was introduced into the Housewivesphere — by having Scheana Marie, who'd slept with Brandi Glanville's husband, confront Brandi and deal with her "wrongdoing" (the gender politics of that are a whole can of worms we don't have time for right now), and segue right into a backdoor pilot.
"I do find that, that whole issue, which is a big can of worms to open up really, it is really, really tough, because you certainly want to see everyone who is guilty of something, who have done bad things, wrong things that hurt people, you want to see those people get punished," he said.
That report revealed years of misconduct allegations against Kirkland and, in the words of one victim's mother, opened "a can of worms" that eventually led police to talk to S.L. "I am starting to see and understand that it's not good for, like, a teacher to want to do stuff with me, that is not good," S.L. told a detective investigating the case.
This opens up a whole can of worms that I quite honestly don't have the time to get into right now—including an actual college football playoff system that not enough people are aware of—but every season, colleges move up or down between FBS 27-A and FCS 22009-AA in a system that somewhat resembles a relegation format.
"This is opening up a whole new can of worms — we have seen problems with security contractors on the battlefield since 9/11, and there's been an improvement in oversight in that area, but that came after a decade of problems," said Laura A. Dickinson, a law professor at George Washington University, who has written extensively about the United States' use of military contractors.
The problem is that in addition to the balancing act of any compromise — that making the bill more conservative might lose liberal votes, and vice versa — the Graham-Durbin proposal doesn't have a ton of room for policy negotiation without opening up a much bigger can of worms than can be resolved in a single four-day week, or even the month that Congress could buy by passing another short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open.

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