| 单词 | box of tricks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox of tricks Phrases P1. on the box. ΚΠ 1785 Rules & Orders Friendly Soc. of Women Norton Falgate 7 If any member while on the box is suspected of defrauding this society..such members so acting shall be excluded. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 11 She applied in her auld days for a recommendation to get her put upon the box. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 23 Box, the funds of a Provident Society. To be ‘on the box’ means to be drawing sick pay. b. colloquial (chiefly British): broadcast or transmitted on television; appearing in a television programme. Cf. sense 5c. ΚΠ 1961 Observer 12 Mar. 26/7 By far the best piece of drama I saw on the box last week was the Sunday instalment of the B.B.C.'s latest E. M. Nesbit serial, The Treasure Seekers. 1973 ‘R. Allen’ Sorts iv, in Compl. Richard Allen (1993) II. 112 Anybody who had been on the box got her vote. Regardless. In her estimation it took an awful lot of talent..to go before the cameras. 2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Dec. Another Christmas, another seasonal attack of gripes that there's nothing on the box except repeats and films that have been out on DVD for donkey's years. ΚΠ 1821 Trewman's Exeter Flying-post 20 Dec. The Bristol hero gave Hickman so hard a blow on his box of ivories that he retreated. 1871 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 297/1 A good box of ivories is a precious treasure when real, and a costly one when artificial. We ought to have our fair proportion of incisors, to bite through the beef and mutton. 1899 Referee (Sydney) 12 July 7/3 A left in the neck from Conlon evoked speedy retaliation in the shape of a right on the cheek that made John's box of ivories rattle distinctly. P3. colloquial. box and dice: a group of things or people in its entirety; everything or everyone relating to a particular situation; the entire matter, the whole thing. Esp. as the whole box and dice. In later use chiefly Australian and New Zealand. [Compare sense 2c and dice-box n. a.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1839 Northern Star & Leeds Gen. Advertiser 6 July 6/5 I have been served with a list of forty-eight special jurymen.., with a direction that I can strike off any twelve that I object to, but I told them they might keep the whole box and dice in it, for I would not strike off one. 1844 Sydney Morning Herald 3 Sept. 3/1 Yourself, your committee-men.., your bullies, and the whole ‘box and dice’ of you, should be continually stirred up by a sort of whipper-in-general. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 223 I'll send you all the books and manuscripts, box and dice. 1962 B. Crump One of Us 169 He must have used about ten plugs of gelignite. Blew the whole box and dice to bits. 2015 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) 9 Mar. 5/1 I went from not knowing anything about superannuation, to knowing the whole box and dice. P4. colloquial. box of tricks. a. Any ingenious device, set of implements or equipment, etc., (sometimes literally in a box or box-like structure) that fulfils a particular requirement or performs a complex or impressive function. Also figurative and in figurative contexts: an extensive range of accomplishments, techniques, etc., at a person's disposal. Cf. bag of tricks at bag n. 18a.In quot. 1847 in a gambling context, possibly with reference to various aids to winning by cheating (cf. double-header n. 5). ΚΠ 1847 Floridian 24 July Spence..fell a victim to the double ‘cat-harp’, and became destitute and penniless, with the exception of his ‘box of tricks’ and his ‘double header’. 1883 J. Greenwood Tag, Rag, & Co. 113 ‘Your tools do you mean?’ ‘All the blessed box of tricks,’ said the tinker. 1953 Archit. Rev. 114 251 The townscaper's box of tricks—enclosure, escape, claustrophobia, surprise, delight, relief. 1978 E. Blishen Sorry, Dad i. 41 ‘My dad's bringing a wireless home tonight!’ Oh, that shameless exhilaration! And running home—to find we had this box of tricks. 2000 Sunday Mercury (Nexis) 1 Oct. 8 When Sneekes is allowed the freedom to open his dazzling box of tricks..he can look on a different planet to any other player in the league. 2014 How to reduce your Home Energy Bills (Centaur Home Interest) 103/1 All the new systems are based around replacing your existing heating controls with a new box of tricks which can be controlled by an app. b. the whole box of tricks: the whole thing or situation; everything. Cf. the whole bag of tricks at bag n. 18a. ΚΠ 1872 Brisbane Courier 1 Mar. 2/6 In case you have forgotten that old bill, here are the electorates it provided..—City of Brisbane, South Brisbane, [etc.]... There you have the whole box o' tricks. 1904 E. W. Townsend Sure ix. 117 All dat style comes near putting a frost on de whole box of tricks;..and it looked like dere was nobody to break de ice, till Maggie..says..‘Start de band, Johnnie, or we'll all tink dat we is at a funeral.’ 2005 Independent (Nexis) 22 Jan. 20 Godskitchen, the best Friday nightclub in the Midlands, packed up its bits and bobs and moved the whole box of tricks to Saturdays at the same venue. c. An inventive, artful, or manipulative person. Cf. trick n. 6c.Frequently in sporting contexts. ΚΠ 1893 Sportsman (Melbourne) 4 July 6/7 Bill Sharkey a box of tricks. Fished out three goals. Delgana played a good all-round game. 1936 N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy xi. 133 What's in your mind, you sly old box of tricks. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 87 She's a right box of tricks is Princess Charlotte. She's probably got the poor cunt jumpin through hoops as we speak, dumb bastard. 2015 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 May 80 He is a box of tricks with a lot of things in his armoury, and we have to be on red alert when he has the ball. P5. to be in the same box: to be in the same difficult situation or predicament. Cf. sense 15a, to be in the same boat at boat n.1 Phrases 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > of the same kind as someone else to be in the same boat1584 to be in the same box1865 1865 H. Sedley Marian Rooke ii. viii. 143 If I weren't in somethin' like the same box as his'n. 1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn III. iii. 26 Well, we are in the same box. 1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill v. 92 He always told himself that all the members of the staff were in the same box. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor iv. i. 199 In fact we're in the same box? 2008 Newsweek 9 June 14/1 I went back and looked at my work, and I was in the same box he was in. P6. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand). a. one out of the box: an excellent or exceptional person or thing. Occasionally also out of the box: excellent, exceptional.In early use spec. (Cricket): an excellent delivery by a bowler. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 1867 Brisbane Courier 21 Jan. 2/5 Macnish, who was playing a pretty innings, also fell a victim to ‘one out of the box’ from the same bowler. 1907 Truth 14 Dec. 3 He..received one of ‘Cobby's’ ‘out of the box’ balls and was bowled after. 1913 Mail (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 6/1 Her feet are not so good as Vanguard's, but of course, he is one out of the box as regards this necessary adjunct to a terrier's finish. 1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) v. 74 She's one out of the box, all right. 1975 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 9 Nov. 11/2 To be frank, the novel is nothing out of the box, and neither is the movie. 2019 Bendigo (Victoria) Advertiser (Nexis) 19 Oct. (Real Estate section) 5 The home is one out of the box, a unique presentation of a comfortable lifestyle home. b. to be a box of birds: to be fine, well, excellent; to be in good health or spirits. Similarly to be a box of fluffy ducks (also to be a box of fluffies). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [verb (intransitive)] to be P and Q1612 to have everything1748 to hit the high spots1891 to be mustard1925 to be a box of birds1939 1939 Dalby (Queensland) Herald 22 Aug. 4/4 Do you know Bruce? He's such a box of birds. 1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 17 73 ‘Hello Terry,’ he said, ‘how's things?’ ‘A box of birds,’ Terry said. 1991 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 1 We're keeping the rafts in sight, everyone's a box of birds. 1993 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 4 Mar. 3 He said the break would not deter her from standing at the next election. ‘She's a box of fluffy ducks. She will be standing.’ 2014 S. Knight Fringe Benefits vii. 45 ‘And how are things with you today?’ Sue asked as she rearranged Moira's cape. ‘A box of birds thanks,’ Moira handled the hem of Sue's top. 2018 W. Smith Hunter's Mark xiii. 144 ‘How are you?’... ‘A box of fluffies.’ P7. colloquial (chiefly British). a. off one's box. (a) Having lost control of one's mental faculties; out of one's mind; deranged; crazy, mad. ΚΠ 1908 Dial. Notes 3 290 [East Alabama] Be off one's base, (box, kerzip, nut), to be out of one's mind. 2017 Daily Star Online (Nexis) 1 Sept. [He] might be thinking outside the box, but some might argue he must be off his box to disrespect such an iconic position of responsibility. (b) Extremely intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. ΚΠ 1998 ‘Bez’ Freaky Dancin' 327 X was now totally an utterly right off his fuckin box an way beyond any reasonin. 2010 WENN Entertainment News Wire Service (Nexis) 5 July Jaime was off her box... She'd been boozing all day. b. out of one's box.Cf. also sense 15b. (a) Having lost control of one's mental faculties; out of one's mind; deranged; crazy, mad. ΚΠ 1966 J. Neugeboren Big Man iii. 54 You're out of your box, girl. 1995 Northern Echo (Nexis) 15 Apr. He must be out of his box. Some people will pay money for anything. 2018 @Gemma_louise84 15 June in twitter.com (accessed 12 Nov. 2019) You should see the total garbage he spews on Twitter, the guy is totally out of his box! (b) Extremely intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. Also used adverbially. ΚΠ 1973 Listener 12 July 37/1 One Friday night after they'd been worsted in a pub brawl..a posse of Angels, ‘stoned out of our boxes on acid’, rode up to Hampstead. 1989 J. Burchill Nature, Nurture or Nietzche? in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 254 During my three years at the NME, I was flash, amateurish, out of my box on sulphate. 2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. 5 I'd be going into the treatment sessions out of my box; hallucinogenic drugs, headshop party pills and taking loads of cocaine for days on end. c. (a) outside the box: outside or beyond the realm of normal practice or conventional thinking. Usually in to think outside the box: to think creatively or in an unconventional manner.In quot. 1970 with allusion to a puzzle in which the aim is to connect the nine dots of a square grid with four straight lines drawn continuously; the solution is only possible if some of the lines extend beyond the border of the grid. ΚΠ 1970 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 2 June 4/3 The problem..is to think ‘outside the dots’ about the questions of how to feed a hungry world.] 1971 Data Managem. Sept. 77 (heading) Think outside the box. If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes [of organization charts], then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed. 1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 14 July 9 We must step back and see if the solutions to our problems lie outside the box. 1984 Fortune 6 Feb. 114/3 He tells his managers to be ‘cross-functional’ and to ‘think outside the box’ of their own specialty. 2016 Courier (Dundee) 2 Jan. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 29/1 You start to think outside the box as far as your future is concerned. (b) inside the box: within the realm of normal practice or conventional thinking. Usually in to think inside the box: to think in a commonplace or conventional manner. ΚΠ 1986 M. Pastin Hard Probl. of Managem. 6 Managers cannot solve resistant problems because they think ‘inside the box’ of standard business tools. 1998 K. Taylor & S. Walton Children at Center xi. 89 He explained to his students that thinking inside the box was to think like the test-maker. 2000 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 25/1 On the defensive, Skidmore stayed safely inside the box and simply edited the plain postwar buildings from the site. 2014 L. Markham Calm Parents, Happy Kids 156 Babies who are told ‘No!’ all the time learn to think inside the box. (c) out-of-the-box: creative, original; unconventional. ΚΠ 1992 HR: Human Resource Planning 15 65 Critical reflection is an active process where one probes for the assumptions, values, and beliefs, which underlies actions and then challenges them. This requires ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking about the situation. 1995 Electronic Media (Nexis) 20 Nov. 1 ‘This is an out-of-the-box thought,’ said Ms. Koplovitz, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of USA Networks. 2003 Alpha (Nexis) Dec. ‘He has an out-of-the-box mind-set,’ says one voter. 2019 Indian Express (Nexis) 31 Oct. This exam is all about delivering results using out-of-the-box thinking rather than following conventional methods. P8. a. colloquial. to get back in (also into) one's box and variants: to stop being interfering, annoying, troublesome, or stupid; to go away. Frequently in imperative, esp. in (get) back in your box. ΚΠ 1920 Mineral (Montana) Independent 12 Aug. Beckworth ponders: ‘There was but one recollection troubled me, and that was my lonely one in St. Louis [sc. Beckworth's wife, Eliza]...’ Back into your box, Eliza. You clog the scenery for the next act. 1989 J. R. Schlesinger Amer. at Century's End i. 4 Mr. Khrushchev..threatened to ‘rain missiles down on London and Paris’... It was the United States that had to order Mr. Khruschev to get back into his box—and to content himself with his spoils in Hungary. 2019 @melaniekmelvin 17 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Oct. 2019) Ffs!.. Get back in your box. b. British colloquial. to put (a person) back in (also into) his (her, etc.) box and variants: to restrict, discourage, or humiliate (a person); to put (a person) back in his or her place. ΚΠ 1983 ABC News Transcripts: World News Tonight (Nexis) 3 Aug. Those who've known Qaddafi over the years believe he revels in all the verbal jousting and that it doesn't..put him back in his box for very long. 2017 Times (Nexis) 8 Aug. (T2 section) 2 Equality and chivalry are unable to coexist... Manners—yes, please, obviously... But don't confuse this with some antiquated value system designed to put me back in my box. P9. box-and-one n. (also box-and-1) Basketball a defensive strategy in which four players are positioned at each corner of the free-throw lane, each playing zone defence, while the remaining player is positioned at the top of the lane to play one-on-one defence, typically against the strongest offensive player; also more fully box-and-one defence. ΚΠ 1958 Sunday Press (Binghamton, N.Y.) 5 Jan. 2 d/2 He directed his Tigers to play a ‘box and one’ against the big Vestal team. 1978 Washington Post 14 Feb. d5/4 Hofstra's leading scorer..was held to four points in the first half by the Cardinals' box-and-one. 2001 S. O'Neal Shaq talks Back (2002) 275 If people start playing a box-and-one defense on me, it will probably take something off my scoring average. P10. Mathematics. box and whisker (also whiskers): (as a modifier) designating a representation of statistical data on a plot in which a rectangle is drawn to represent the second and third quartiles, divided by a line inside to indicate the median value, with the lower and upper quartiles shown by lines extending out perpendicular to either side of the rectangle. Esp. in box and whisker diagram, box and whisker graph, box and whisker plot, etc. Cf. earlier box plot at Compounds 5.Similarly box-whisker (also box-whiskers) in the same sense. ΚΠ 1976 Science 22 Oct. 402/2 (note) The idea for the box and whisker plots came from J. W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis. 1991 Plains Anthropologist 36 73 (caption) Box and whisker diagrams for tombstone height by decade, Sunset Cemetery. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1030/2 (caption) Box-whisker plot of the coefficient of variation for the traits studied. The horizontal line represents the mean, the box encompasses ± 1 s.e., and the vertical line delimits the non-outlier minimum and maximum values. 2008 L. L. Giventer Statist. Anal. for Public Admin. (ed. 2) iii. 42 A box-whisker graph uses a one-dimensional continuous scale. 2010 E. Barrow in D. Sauchyn et al. New Normal iv. 48 The box-and-whisker plots are very similar for the grassland and forest regions, although there are more outliers (i.e. more extreme scenario values) in the forest region. 2016 M. D. Rossetti Simulation Modeling & Arena (ed. 2) vii. 378 Table 7.5 shows the data copied from the box–whiskers chart. P11. figurative. to tick (also check) (all) the (right) boxes and variants: to fulfil the requirements; to have (all) the necessary or expected attributes.In North America check is more commonly used in this phrase; elsewhere tick predominates to a greater or lesser extent. ΚΠ 1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 113/3 These were relatively easy targets, a matter of checking the right boxes. 1993 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 26 Nov. The Bank..ticked all the boxes…but it was obvious no time went into their report. 1994 Frank (Ottawa) 3 Mar. 9/4 Checks all the boxes, domestically, but proud confession to government job a strike against him. 2005 Independent 26 Sept. 32/1 We do not do this with a view to ticking the right boxes, but because..we believe it is..the right thing to do. < as lemmas |
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