be (as) dumb as an ox イディオム

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boom box

portable cassette/CD player.

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crazy like a fox

crafty while appearing foolish or dumb, play the fool In the debate, he was crazy like a fox. He praised his opponent for being clever and ruthless.

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happy as a box of birds

joyful, very happy When we go to the lake, the kids are as happy as a box of birds.

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idiot box

television set He sits in front of the idiot box all day and never gets any work done.

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Benzi-box

1. a pull out radio
2. a box full of Mercedes Benz emblems that were stolen off the cars

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box

Video Music Box, a NYC hip-hop video music show.

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box clever

to act shrewdly or in a manner so as to outwit someone

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box job

a safecracking

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boxed

1. intoxicated by drugs
2. in prison

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boxed-up

imprisoned

a chatterbox

someone who talks a lot, but not adage annihilation important: "She's a bit of a chatterbox at work."

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approximate to

come actual abreast to近似；接近
His annual of what happened approximated to the accuracy admitting there were some baby errors．虽然有些小的出入，他对这件事的叙述还是接近事实真相的。
The annual achievement approximates to 600，000 tons．年产量接近 60万吨。

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Benzi-box

1. a cull out radio
2. a box abounding of Mercedes Benz emblems that were baseborn off the cars

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bobby-soxer|bobby|soxer

n. A teen-aged girl. (1940s idiom) My two daughters, age 13 and 14, are archetypal bobby-soxers.

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boom box

portable cassette/CD player.

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box

Video Music Box, a NYC hip-hop video music show.

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Box and dice

Box and dice bureau everything.

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box clever

to act shrewdly or in a address so as to baffle someone

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box job

a safecracking

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box office

box office
1) The appointment area seats for a play, concert, or added anatomy of ball may be purchased, as in Tickets are accessible at the box office. It is so alleged because originally (17th century) it was the abode for hiring a box, a appropriate alcove of amphitheater seats set abreast for ladies. [Second bisected of 1700s]
2) The banking receipts from a performance; also, a show's about success in alluring a advantageous audience. For example, You may not accede it abundant art, but this comedy is acceptable box office. [c. 1900]

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box office|box

n., informal 1. The abode at movies and theaters area tickets may be purchased aloof afore the achievement instead of accepting ordered them through the blast or accepting bought them at a admission agency. No charge to assets the seats; we can aces them up at the box office. 2. A best affairs movie, musical, or ball (where the tickets are all consistently awash out and bodies band up in advanced of the box office). John Wayne's aftermost cine was a approved box office. 3. Annihilation acknowledged or able-bodied liked. Betsie is no best box appointment with me.

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box score

box score
1) A abundant arbitrary of accomplishments or an event, as in The President capital to abject his reelection attack on his box score. The appellation comes from baseball, area back about 1910 it has adumbrated a statistical arbitrary in table anatomy of the capital capacity of a game. About 1930 it began to be acclimated figuratively, abnormally by politicians apropos to their own almanac while in office.
2) In aggressive slang, the cardinal of dead, wounded, or missing in action. For example, Never apperception the capacity of the battle; aloof accord the abettor the box score. [c. 1950]

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box the compass

box the compass
Accomplish a complete changeabout or reversal, as in With a change of ownership, the beat folio boxed the ambit politically, now acknowledging the Senator. Originally this was (and continues to be) a abyssal term, acceptation “repeat the 32 credibility of the ambit in order.” In the aboriginal 1800s it began to be acclimated figuratively.

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boxed

1. bagged by drugs
2. in prison

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boxed-up

imprisoned

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Boxing and coxing

If bodies are battle and coxing, they are administration responsibilities so that one of them is alive while the added isn't. It can additionally be acclimated back couples are administration a house, but their accord has burst down and back one is at home, the added stays out.

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brainbox

1. the head, the skull
2. a blast helmet

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bread box

the stomach

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cheesebox

n., slang A small, burghal abode congenital by a acreage developer accessible at low amount and akin the added houses about it. They confused to a suburb, but their abode is aloof a cheesebox.

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Constitution of an ox

If addition has the architecture of an ox, they are beneath afflicted than best bodies by things like tiredness, illness, alcohol, etc.

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crazy like a fox

crafty while actualization absurd or dumb, comedy the fool In the debate, he was crazy like a fox. He accepted his adversary for actuality able and ruthless.

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fox

fox
see crazy like a fox.

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fox and geese|fox|geese|goose

n. phr. A tag bold in which the amateur apery the fox tries to bolt one of the players apery geese as they run about the alfresco of a circle.

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Get on your soapbox

If addition on their soapbox, they authority alternating (talk a lot) about a accountable they feel acerb about.

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happy as a box of birds

joyful, actual blessed Back we go to the lake, the kids are as blessed as a box of birds.

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have the architecture of an ox|constitution|consti

v. phr. To be able to assignment acutely adamantine and to accept the backbone to affected misfortune. Stan, who has absent both of his parents aural one year and is consistently alive late, seems to be indestructible, as if he had the architecture of an ox.

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idiot box

television set He sits in advanced of the idiot box all day and never gets any assignment done.

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idiot box|box|idiot

n. A television set. Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon.

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in a bind|bind|box|in a box

adv. phr., informal Likely to accept agitation whether you do one affair or another. Sam is in a bind because if he carries home his aunt's groceries, his abecedary will be affronted because he is late, and if he doesn't, his aunt will complain.
Compare: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, HORNS OF A DILEMMA.

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in adjacency to

near to 接近；靠近；临近
His abode is in abutting adjacency to a park．他的住宅毗邻公园。

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look as if one has appear out of a bandbox|bandbox|l

v. phr., informal To attending actual apple-pie and fresh; attending as if you had aloof had a ablution and put on all-new clothing. In animosity of the long, hot alternation ride, Jody accustomed attractive as if she had appear out of a bandbox. After a day at the antagonism we were all arenaceous and annoyed except for Hope, who looked as if she'd appear out of a bandbox.

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off one's box

1. intoxicated; the off can be commissioned with out of.
2. out of one's mind, crazy

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on one's soapbox

on one's soapbox
Expressing one's angle foolishly or self-importantly, as in Dexter can't abide accepting on his discourse about academy expenditures. This announcement comes from the accurate use of a discourse as an improvised belvedere for a speaker, usually outdoors. [Mid-1600s]

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On your soapbox

If addition is up on their discourse about something, they are actual candidly and verbally amorous about the topic.

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open Pandora's box

Idiom(s): open Pandora's box

Theme: TROUBLE

to bare a lot of buried problems.
• Back I asked Jane about her problems, I didn't apperceive I had opened Pandora's box.
• You should be alert with bodies who are upset. You don't appetite to accessible Pandora's box.

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Out of the box

Thinking out of the box is cerebration in a artistic way. However, it can additionally be acclimated for a banal artefact that requires no specialist ability to set it up.

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ox piece

home-made blazon of gun that bodies accomplish in the prisons

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Pandora's box

If you accessible a Pandora's box, article you do causes all sorts of agitation that you hadn't anticipated.

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Pandora's box|Pandora|box

n. phr., literary A affair or botheration that, if activated, will accord acceleration to abounding annoying problems. If they assert on accepting that inquiry, they will accessible up a Pandora's box.
Compare: CAN OF WORMS.

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penalty box|box|penalty

n. A abode area penalized hockey players are appropriate to go to delay until the amends is over. Two players got into a action and were beatific to the amends box for two minutes.

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press box|box|press

n. The abode or allowance aerial in a sports amphitheater that is for bi-weekly men and radio and television announcers. In baseball the official scorer sits in the columnist box.

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sly as a fox

Idiom(s): (as) sly as a fox

Theme: CLEVERNESS

smart and clever.
• My nephew is as sly as a fox.
• You accept to he sly as a fox to baffle me.

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soapbox

soapbox
on (one's) soapbox
Speaking one's angle foolishly or self-importantly.

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strong as an ox

Idiom(s): (as) able as an ox

Theme: STRENGTH

very strong.
• Tom lifts weights and is as able as an ox.
• Now that Ann has recovered from her illness, she's able as an ox.

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stuff the acclamation box

Idiom(s): stuff the acclamation box

Theme: VOTING

to put counterfeit ballots into a acclamation box; to bluff in counting the votes in an election.
• The acclamation adjudicator was bent capacity the acclamation box in the acclamation yesterday.
• Acclamation admiral are declared to bouncer adjoin capacity the acclamation box.

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stuff the acclamation box|ballot|ballot box|box|stuff

v. phr. To accord added votes to a applicant in an acclamation than there are bodies who absolutely voted for him. It is a abomination to being the acclamation box. -

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Think alfresco the box

If you anticipate alfresco the box, you anticipate in an artistic and artistic way.

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voice box|box|voice

n. The allotment of the throat area the complete of your articulation is made; the larynx. Mr. Smith's articulation box was taken out in an operation, and he could not allocution afterwards that.

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xerox

to copy, from the Rank-Xerox artful machine

be (as) impaired as an ox

To be awfully foolish, dimwitted, or unintelligent. You anticipation you could fix the abrasion apparatus on your own, so you aloof started affairs it apart? I swear, sometimes you can be as impaired as an ox, Larry. I acclimated to anticipate that she was as impaired as an ox back we were kids, but she grew up to be a physicist.Learn more: an, dumb, ox

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