🗓️ Idiom: Think Outside the Box (v)
💬 Meaning
- To think in a creative or new way.
- It means finding ideas that are different from the usual or expected ones.
- Having ideas that are outside normal thinking
🧠 Example Sentences
- We need to think outside the box if we want to solve this design problem.
- The team thought outside the box and came up with a unique marketing idea.
- Thinking outside the box helped them create a tool that no one had seen before.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom became popular in the 1970s from business and creativity workshops. It refers to going beyond traditional thinking—like solving a puzzle that forces you to draw outside a square “box.”
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
To stand out in a crowded market, we have to __________.
Answer
think outside the box
2. Choose the correct meaning of “think outside the box”:
A) To follow standard rules
B) To copy an old solution
C) To think creatively and differently
D) To focus only on small tasks
Answer
C) To think creatively and differently
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“We need to come up with new and unusual ideas.” → Change the sentence using: think outside the box
Answer
We need to think outside the box.
