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Iʹve got into the wrong box. I am out of my element. Lord Lyttelton used to say he ought to have been brought up to some business; that whenever he went to Vauxhall and heard the mirth of his neighbours, he used to fancy pleasure was in every box but his own. Wherever he went for happiness, he somehow always got into the wrong box. (See Christmas Box.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bower-woman (A)
Bower of Bliss
Bowie Knife
Bowing
Bowled
Bowling
Bowls
Bowse
Bowyer God
Box
Box and Cox
Box the Compass
Box Days
Box Harry (To)
Boxing-Day
Boy
Boy Bachelor
Boy Bishop
Boycott (To)
Boyle Controversy