out of the box

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  Immediately, without intervention from the customer.
 * 2)  Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.
 * 1)  Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.
 * 1)  Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.
 * 1)  Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.

Usage notes

 * In the sense "unconventionally", outside the box is more frequently used, more than three to one in the US, perhaps to avoid confusion with the other sense of "out of the box". Also used is "outside of the box".

Translations

 * Czech: od výroby
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: elskatole
 * Finnish:
 * French: au déballage
 * German: einsatzfähig, gebrauchsfertig, von der Stange
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * German: [1] jenseits alter Denkmuster