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a source of misfortune or disaster: Pandora' box.

In Greek mythology the gods used a beautiful woman, Pandora, to punish mankind for Prometheus's theft of fire. They sent her to earth with a box full of all the evils that could befall mankind, certain that she would give in to her curiosity and open the box, thus releasing those evils into the world.