Box : nf Rigid material container (cardboard, wood, metal, plastic), easily transportable, usually with a lid.
Can someone: make fun of him, make him walk.
Canning: mockery.
A club is a small cabaret open at night (nightclub) where people drink, dance, and which presents attractions.
Clubbing : What are we doing tonight, are we going to a club?
Take a box: fall, fall.
Police room; in a box: put in the police room; eat out of the box: stand the police room; put in box: send to the Depot.
Cookie tin: gun.
Milk box or lolo: woman's breast.
Juice box: street vendor coffee maker.
Pâté box: rectum.
Milk box: The breasts. The breasts of a pretty woman are certainly milk cans from which one would like to drink.
Milk box: nanny in the performance of her duties. - Breast of a nursing woman.
Salt box: the head, seat of the spirit. Have a mosquito in the salt box. Being a little crazy, a little manic.
Meat box: coffin. It is not a tin can.
Garbage box: behind, the ass.
The expression "to put in a box" means: to make fun of someone, of their naivety - By extension, to annoy them.
What we know thanks to Gaston Esnault is that at the end of the XNUMXth century, we said nest to "mock", "booze" or "hiss" someone (theater actors were also very afraid of "interlocking"). Then it was in 1910 and in slang, that our expression appeared before spreading around 1930.
But why is boxing a mockery?
Perhaps this comes from a meaning that Maurice Rat gives to this expression: "to make it impossible for him to reply, to get out of the woods." There, even if we move away from the main meaning of today, we understand much better the image of immobilization and locking in a box.
And finally, we can imagine that someone who we laugh at ends up getting angry, which explains the wide and recent meaning of this expression.