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idiot box

noun

, Slang.
  1. a television set; television.


idiot box

noun

  1. slang.
    a television set
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Word History and Origins

Origin of idiot box1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Idioms and Phrases

A television set, as in There they sit in front of the idiot box, hour after hour . This slangy and pejorative expression dates from about 1960.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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