out of one's box

Example Sentences

• "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 too. "You're out of your box, girl," I say."
• "Deep down, I didn't think it would succeed. I probably listened to too many people saying, "Mirandi, you're out of your box!""
• "As with so many things in this life, when it comes to shopping, men are from Marks and women are from Venus (you know gents, Venus, that vintage boutique in that arcade where you sat bored out of your box one Saturday afternoon when you could have been watching that crucial Villa/Blues/Baggies game)."
• "And Christ anyway, you trust her judgment? She's out of her box man. Fried."
• "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 […]"
• "It was hard to tell sometimes with Junius Booth whether he was just plain insane or merely out of his box on booze, so famed was he for his eccentric nature."