a poisoned chalice

(British)

something that harms the person it is given to although it seemed very good when they first got it The leadership of the party turned out to be a poisoned chalice.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Wandal	-	Ancient Germanic
RocÍO	ro-THEE-o (Spanish), ro-SEE-o (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Swithin	-	History
Rusul	-	Arabic
ŞUkrİ	-	Turkish
TemÜR	-	Medieval Turkic