box off 관용구
box office|box
n.,
informal 1. The place at movies and theaters where tickets may be purchased just before the performance instead of having ordered them through the telephone or having bought them at a ticket agency.
No need to reserve the seats; we can pick them up at the box office. 2. A best selling movie, musical, or drama (where the tickets are all always sold out and people line up in front of the box office).
John Wayne's last movie was a regular box office. 3. Anything successful or well liked.
Betsie is no longer box office with me.
box office
box office 1) The office where seats for a play, concert, or other form of entertainment may be purchased, as in
Tickets are available at the box office. It is so called because originally (17th century) it was the place for hiring a box, a special compartment of theater seats set aside for ladies. [Second half of 1700s]
2) The financial receipts from a performance; also, a show's relative success in attracting a paying audience. For example,
You may not consider it great art, but this play is good box office. [c. 1900]
box off
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