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out of one's box

out of one's box prepositional phrase: crazy; unhinged; irrational.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Crazy; unhinged; irrational.
    • Then she got a leg behind my knee and crash! I'm on the floor and she's flying on top of me, screaming like a maniac. I cover my face, trying to take deep breaths and all of a sudden she's flush on me, her mouth at my ear, laughing like hell with her fingers working on my ribs. Then I'm laughing...1966, Jay Neugeboren, Big Man, Mariner Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 54
    • Deep down, I didn't think it would succeed. I probably listened to too many people saying, "Mirandi, you're out of your box!"2001, Miranda Speranza Masocco Levy, “The Belle of the Ball”, in John Pen La Farge, editor, Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955, University of New Mexico Press...
  2. (idiomatic) Stoned or intoxicated.
    • And Christ anyway, you trust her judgment? She's out of her box man. Fried.1997, Kirk Lane, Never Hit the Ground, Pulp, published 1997, →ISBN, page 10
    • And I'd be quietly filing, recalling that around that time I was dragging a wardrobe out of a ski with a biker who kept screaming like a wolf because he was out of his box on magic mushrooms […]2001, Mark Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker, Scribner, published 2001, →ISBN, page 94

Synonyms of out of one's box

Questions about out of one's box

What does out of one's box mean?
Out of one's box means crazy; unhinged; irrational.
What part of speech is out of one's box?
Out of one's box is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of one's box in the dictionary

  1. out of kilter
  2. out of line
  3. out of luck
  4. out of nowhere
  5. out of office
  6. out of one's box
  7. out of one's cotton-picking mind
  8. out of one's depth
  9. out of one's element
  10. out of one's face
  11. out of one's fingers

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