From the Oxford English Dictionary [0]: "An award or honour which is likely to prove a disadvantage or source of problems to the recipient; the phrase is found

From the Oxford English Dictionary [0]: "An 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." [0] https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100333715 https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...