knock out of the box
English
Verb
knock out of the box
- (baseball) To cause a pitcher to be replaced by heavy hitting.
- (idiomatic) To cause something to be replaced by something else.
Quotations
- 2002: 'Odd the way the immediate concerns about a dying marriage can knock worries about torture and murder and mysterious chess pieces right out of the box' — in The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Synonyms
- (cause something to be replaced by something else): oust
Related terms
- out of the box