colour outside the lines
colour outside the lines is the alternative form of color outside the lines.
Meaning of color outside the lines
Verb
color outside the lines (third-person singular simple present colors outside the lines, present participle coloring outside the lines, simple past and past participle colored outside the lines)
- To behave in creative or unconventional ways, to break the rules.
- As one American problem-solving court judge put it: “We are the judges who get to color outside the lines.”2009, James L. Nolan Jr, Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see color, outside, lines.
Forms of colour outside the lines
| third-person singular present | colours outside the lines |
|---|---|
| present participle | colouring outside the lines |
| past participle | coloured outside the lines |
| past | coloured outside the lines |
Words that rhyme with colour outside the lines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about colour outside the lines
- What is colour outside the lines the alternative form of?
- Colour outside the lines is the alternative form of color outside the lines.
Words near colour outside the lines in the dictionary
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