by BigIanDries June 18, 2018
Get the Box dark mug.A "check-in-the-box" and is an action or mandate that a group or authority takes when it doesn't want to be liable for something, so they put on an act that everyone secretly knows is functionally meaningless but has enough good intention so that criticism is often viciously attacked. In the end, if a worst-case scenario presents itself, the group or authority in question can claim they took all the possible precautions they had at their disposal and are not liable for damages while exclaiming how sorry they are things didn't happen as they would have liked. This usually leads to calls for more feel-good protocols and additional checks-in-the-box actions, and if the group or authorities' performance is good enough can even lead to the group or authority being lauded for their benevolence, all the while the people forgetting it was the original check-in-the-box that might have caused the crisis.
Person A: Do you think installing a sign warning people that there is no lifeguard on duty will help prevent drowning?
Person B: (Being honest) Of course not, but it's a check-in-the-box, so we won't be responsible if anything else does happen.
Person A: You're so cynical.
Person B: (Being honest) Of course not, but it's a check-in-the-box, so we won't be responsible if anything else does happen.
Person A: You're so cynical.
by LaughingGhost February 23, 2021
Get the Check-in-the-Box mug.aka marijuana sauna, toking up in a sealed, sometimes small, room or space. the smoke has no way to escape and the high last longer, breathing it in and out.
by Shaka-zulu October 8, 2008
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Get the Box Buffer mug.Water that is in a box made by the company boxed water is better. On two sides of the box it says boxed water is better with a raindrop at the end and one side it says hello written in cursive letters. On the final side it has facts about the company and the boxed water itself.
by Gen no phone February 3, 2017
Get the boxed water mug.Where you quite simply stand in a telephone box staring creepily at passers by. Using the telephone is not needed as the point of this skill is todisturp and make other people feel uncomfortable.
'Shit that guy was telephone boxing me!"
"Lets go telephone box the shit out of some unsuspecting punters"
"Lets go telephone box the shit out of some unsuspecting punters"
by runfatboyrun May 12, 2013
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