Mailbox Phrases

Phrases

• A box of birds
• A box of tricks
• A newspaper, not a snoozepaper (Mail on Sunday advertising slogan)
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• As deaf as a post
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• Big box retailer
• Black box
• Box and Cox
• Box clever
• Box step (A basic dance pattern)
• Box ticking exercise
• Box your ears
• Chain letter
• Christmas box
• Cox and box
• Cracker box
• Dead letter
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Direct mail
• Express Mail
• First past the post
• Four letter word
• Fox in the box
• French letter
• Get the message
• Get your message across
• Go home in a box
• Goggle box
• Hate mail
• Idiot box
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• In the box seat
• In the same box
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Junk mail
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Living in a box
• Mail order bride
• Mail shot
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)

• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• On message
• On the box
• Open Pandora's box
• Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
• Out of the box
• Out of your box
• Outside the box
• Pillar box red
• Pipped at the post
• Please Mr. Postman (The Beatles song)
• Poison pen letter
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Post haste
• Post modern
• Post mortem
• Post partum
• Pushed from pillar to post
• Radio box
• Red letter day
• Set-top box
• Snail mail
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Take the money, open the box
• The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Ice Box (Nickname of Tim Newton)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The check is in the mail
• The cheque is in the post
• The letter of the law
• The medium is the message (A catchphrase from Marshall McLuhan)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Three letter acronym
• Tick box
• To the letter
• Vegetable box
• Voice mail
• Whole box of dice
• Winning post
• Worth a guinea a box (Beecham's Pills advertising slogan)