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The tax proposal, said campaign strategist Dan Newman, “opens up a can of worms sliding down a slippery slope by taxing cars, houses, wheelbarrows and everything else.”

What remains to be seen now is whether a wider can of worms has been opened.

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But I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'man, you all partner with a gambling company, you open a can of worms'.

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“China is reopening the same can of worms.”

Nudleman prefers to use his Amazon Fire Stick’s voice search feature to look for specific titles he’s interested in, but that experience is its own can of worms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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