Wheels within wheels

Hidden or unknown things that influence a particular situation, making it more complicated than it at first seems.

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Can of worms
informal

A situation that causes a lot of problems for you when you start to deal with it:

Corruption is a serious problem, but nobody has yet been willing to open up that can of worms.

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Mailman Steals From Birthday Cards

 
 

9 dec. 2019

I don’t want to get too technical, but the phrase does go “Finders, keepers; Losers, weepers”.