jack-in-the-boxes

Soon the company was making jack-in-the-boxes and toy guns.

Hot Wheels' Driver And Barbie's Dad Stephen Miller 2011

Doors came flying open with maids and footmen popping out of them like startled jack-in-the-boxes to see who—or what—was making such a tremendous racket.

The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama ...

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Spreading Positive Social Epidemics 2009

Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama ...

DJ Edgerton: Is It Time to Move Your Agency to Hollywood? 2009

Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama ...

GOP Rep. Trent Franks Calls Obama "An Enemy Of Humanity" 2009

ROGER WAS LAYING THE LAST OF the water pipes when Aidan and Jemmy popped up beside him, sudden as a pair of jack-in-the-boxes.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

III clockworks in my eyes and springs out of my pupils like a thousand malicious jack-in-the-boxes; all because you have wound me up too tightly. prev & next

unheimlich Diary Entry unheimlich 2002

There followed a short period of chaos, with men exploding out of their blankets like startled jack-in-the-boxes, incoherent shouting, and general mayhem.

The Fiery Cross Gabaldon, Diana 2001

Fluff nodded approvingly as two more giant Ujurrians popped out of the hole like ursinoid jack-in-the-boxes.

Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

Voices rose, people looked at each other in disbelief, a couple of those sitting down popped up like jack-in-the-boxes.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981