outside the box | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Beyond theboundsofconventionornormalpractice.Synonyms:laterally,out of the box,outside of the boxThe boss wants some new ideas—it's time to thinkoutside the box.1971September, Michael R. Notaro, Jr., “Management of Personnel: Organization Patterns and Techniques”, inData Management, volume 9, number 9, page77:"THINKOUTSIDE THE BOX". If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes, then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed. ... Here are nine dots: If you were asked to pick up a pencil and try to touch every dot using four straight lines only, you would try it this way first. It would be incorrect. That's because this configuration is in the shape of a box and we are conditioned to think this way.

Examples:

EN: I can't explain because she's outside the box now.
ES: No puedo explicártelo, porque está junto a la cabina.
EN: ...of Skoglund, ball taken by Ferrario and launched outside the box.
ES: Mazza a la derecha, pasa a Lorenzi en profundidad.
EN: Think outside the box.
ES: Hay que ver a lo ancho.
EN: Think outside the box!
ES: ¡Abre tu mente!
EN: We're creative people who live outside the box.
ES: Gente creativa que vive a su manera.
EN: You've got to learn to think outside the box, Dilbert.
ES: Debes aprender a pensar fuera del cuadrado, Dilbert
EN: Look, we both know I live outside the box but I don't go around killing my friends.
ES: Mira, los dos sabemos que vivo de forma poco habitual pero no voy por ahi matando a mis amigos.
EN: Way to think outside the box, Frank.
ES: ¡Qué original, Frank!
EN: We have to put technology aside, think outside the box.
ES: Tenemos que dejar la tecnología de lado y pensar creativamente.
EN: It's a bit outside the box.
ES: Es un lugar fuera de lo normal.
EN: -It's good to think outside the box!
ES: - Es bueno pensar con originalidad.
EN: Well, we have to go outside the box on this one.
ES: Tenemos que utilizar recursos externos esta vez.
EN: We need to start thinking outside the box.
ES: Tenemos que empezar a pensar fuera de la caja.
EN: Right. Think outside the box.
ES: Cierto piensa en lo que está fuera de la caja.
EN: Let's think outside the box.
ES: Estrujémonos el cerebro.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).