Definitions
Wiktionary
- Used other than as an idiom: See out of, the, box.
- idiomatic, of a product Immediate(ly), without intervention from the customer.
- idiomatic Outside the box; unconventional(ly): outside the limits of conventional thinking.
Examples
“One minute my father was standing in the English department mail room, taking the latest edition of Transcendentalist Scholar out of the box marked ADJUNCT FACULTY.”
“Then out of the box came Adelaide’s costumes, one by one.”
“They knocked the Game 2 pitcher out of the box in the second inning—a fellow by the name of David Cone—and routed the Mets to even the series.”
“Now and then, Shen Jie would take the toys out of the box himself and show them to other parents.”
“I got my mail out of the box and started for the stairs down to my apartment, when a car pulled in to the boardinghouse's small gravel lot and crunched to a stop a few steps away.”
“They set out once more and travelled till they reached Kimrah, where they took him out of the box and brought him before the Wazir who asked him,”
“Dirty Shirt giggled, scooped up the change and five-spot; Clean Shirt took an ice cream stick, lifted the winner out of the box and put him on the bark of a pepper tree next to the bench.”
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