poisoned chalice
poisoned chalice an assignment, award, or honour which is likely to prove a disadvantage or source of problems to the recipient; the phrase is found originally in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606), in a speech in which Macbeth flinches from the prospective murder of Duncan.
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