Pandora's box | Idiomator

Meaning: (Greekmythology)Aboxgiven toPandorabyZeus, whose instructions stated that it must not be opened, and were then ignored, leading to disastrous consequences.

Examples:

EN: Might as well open Pandora's box.
ES: Se llevará una gran sorpresa.
EN: Maybe it's like Pandora's box.
ES: Quizás sea como la caja de Pandora.
EN: Pandora's box.
ES: La caja de Pandora.
EN: It's Pandora's box come to punish and torment us with all the evils of humanity.
ES: Es una caja de Pandora para castigarnos y atormentarnos con todos los males de la humanidad.
EN: No, it was Pandora's box, wasn't it?
ES: No, ¿no era la caja de Pandora? No importa.
EN: "Pandora's box"?
ES: ¿"La Caja de Pandora"?
EN: Pandora no hako aketa toki When Pandora's box opened
ES: Pandora no hako aketa toki Cuando la Caja de Pandora es abierta
EN: Like the sword of Damocles or Pandora's box.
ES: Como la espada de Damocles o la caja de Pandora.
EN: - Have you ever heard of Pandora's box?
ES: - ¿No sabes lo que es la caja de Pandora?
EN: But it's Pandora's box.
ES: Pero es la caja de Pandora.
EN: I don't even wanna open that Pandora's box, psycho...
ES: Ni siquiera quiero abrir esa caja de Pandora. Perra psicótica.
EN: Mike, we've opened Pandora's box.
ES: Mike, hemos abierto la caja de Pandora.
EN: Or we are about to open Pandora's box.
ES: O vamos a abrir la caja de Pandora.
EN: We ain't opening that Pandora's box.
ES: No, maldita sea.
EN: From the heavens reaching down through time and space towards the ground. The bitten hand of fate unlocks the secrets of Pandora's box.
ES: Desde el cielo, viajando por el tiempo y el espacio hacia la tierra... la codiciosa mano del destino, abre la caja de Pandora.

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