out of one's box

out of one's box
adj
a.
crazy, deranged
b.
intoxicated by drugs or drink
These terms became widespread in the mid-1960s, before which synonymous phrases (with the exception of 'out of one's mind') usually began with 'off'. When the Rolling Stones called their 1965 album Out of Our Heads the phrase was still a lit-tle-known Americanism. The 'box' version has been fashionable in Britain since the mid-1970s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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