Idiom
knock out of the box
Meaning
To cause something to be replaced by something else.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This new phone knocked the old one out of the box.”
“The streaming service knocked cable TV out of the box for most young families.”
“In a single decade, digital photography had knocked film out of the box, leaving darkrooms abandoned and obsolete.”
Examples
simple
“This new phone knocked the old one out of the box.”
contextual
“The streaming service knocked cable TV out of the box for most young families.”
complex
“In a single decade, digital photography had knocked film out of the box, leaving darkrooms abandoned and obsolete.”
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