jack-in-the-box

• “Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack-in-the-box.”

  Chapter 3

• “He is a jack-in-the-box the way he pops into the chair.”

  THE ETERNITY OF FORMS

• “The man had come upon him like the eruption of a jack-in-the-box.”

  The Benefit of the Doubt

• “She knew the huge, twenty-foot, spring snake coiled inside the camera and ready to leap out like a jack-in-the-box when Dick squeezed the bulb.”

  CHAPTER XXIX

• “I think a middle-aged man with a big paunch straddling a motorcycle looks like a jack-in-the-box before it springs—all rolled up in himself.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “The bead will pop into your vision like a jack-in-the-box.”

  Shotgun Slug Accuracy Tips from the American Slug Shooting Association

• “The crank clicked as Fancy turned it, like a jack-in-the-box, only instead of hearing music, they saw the image of the happy place on the screen projected onto the four walls, and then the ceiling and the floor.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.”

  M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman: Book summary

• “To further hammer this point home, we are also treated to a flashback where a young girl at a birthday party is given a jack-in-the-box that was obviously purchased at a failed toy store H.R. Giger tried to open.”

  Seeing Double: April Fool’s Day / Happy Birthday to Me » Scene-Stealers

• “It may be set in the vicious world of academia, but Cedar has a lot of fun throwing up notes and lists like "5 things you should know about Professor Uriel Schkolnik" or picturing the popular academic popping up like a jack-in-the-box on a map when he's giving six lectures in six different locations on a popular religious holiday.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Three: A Pope, A Pianist, A Philogoist and More!

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