let the genie out of the bottle

genie | American Dictionary

genie
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʒi·ni/
a spirit, esp. a magical spirit who will do whatever the person who controls it asks it to do

Examples of genie

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However, they declined the genie's offer and instead had you, with all your all-toohuman limitations and conditions.
The problem thus raised is the old one of getting the genie back in the bottle.
Despite these warnings, the genie was already out of the bottle.
All attempts to put the genie back in the bottle came too late.
The autobiography slips out, as if by magic, like a genie which belongs to generality only in the phantomic surprise of singularity, or speciality, that it brings to it.
They were no longer the 'genie of the lamp' or 'yogic mystic', but instead created and asserted their own identity and canon of aesthetics and tricks.
The very people who let the genie out of the bottle are the ones now asking whether we are on the right track.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Their uncensored imagination will be able to put the bureaucratic genie which aims to destroy democracy back in its bottle.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The genie was already long out of the bottle by that stage, however, and the wildest imaginable stories were already circulating in the media.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
New diseases and cancers in animals and people will escape this genie's bottle.
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