German - Turkish
Definition of büchse der pandora in German Turkish dictionary
- Pandora
- n. pr. myth. Pandor; die Büchse der ~ Pandor kutusu
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German - English
Definition of büchse der pandora in German English dictionary
- Pandora's box
- A source of unforeseen trouble
- A box given to Pandora by Zeus whose instructions that it must not be opened were ignored with disastrous consequences
- {i} box opened by the first mortal woman which released all human ills into the world (Greek Mythology); any situation that creates more problems than existed beforehand
- open a Pandora's box to do or start something that will cause a lot of other problems (Pandora woman in an ancient Greek story who opened a box and let all evils out into the world)
- 'Die Büchse der Pandora' (von Wedekind / Werktitel)
- 'Pandora's Box' (by Wedekind / work title)