Frankenstein
noun🔊/ˈfræŋkənstaɪn/
🔊/ˈfræŋkənstaɪn/
(also Frankenstein’s monster, Frankenstein monster)
used to talk about something that somebody creates or invents that goes out of control and becomes dangerous, often destroying the person who created it 失控的受造物（常毁灭创造者） The organization has now become a Frankenstein monster beyond the control of the people who created it. 该组织现在已经成为科学怪人，而不受其创建者的控制。 If you were going to do a Frankenstein and put a swimmer together from scratch, you would build Michael Phelps. 如果您打算做一个科学怪人并且从零开始组建一个游泳者，那么您将建造迈克尔·菲尔普斯。 Can genetic engineering shake off its Frankenstein image? 基因工程能否摆脱科学怪人的形象？
More Like This Expressions from literary sourcesExpressions from literary sourcesTopics Dangerc2Word OriginFrom the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in which a scientist called Frankenstein makes a creature from pieces of dead bodies and brings it to life.