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Thinking inside the box 

Take off on an overused board room expression, only this one actually has some actual meaning. To think inside the box simply means to have your mind on sex.
Dude, that board room meeting with Hal & Tom was so boring...they kept talking about thinking outside the box all the while while I was thinking inside the box while staring at the copy girl.

Think Inside the Box 

A counterintuitive, underused strategy that is seldom emphasized in generating creative solutions, compared to the oft-canned strategy of “think outside the box”—better still, if there is no box.
Unlike novices who religiously think out of the box, professionals know that breakthroughs often take place when they reluctantly think inside the box—constraints are the catalyst to creativity.
Think Inside the Box by MathPlus December 17, 2018

Think inside the box 

When you are trying to get with a girl you must step up your level of thought. You must think on how to get into the box by thinking in the box
I’ll never get with Hannah unless I think inside the box.

Keep that inside the box 

to "archive" something like a discussion
You: I'm so sorry about yesterday

Me: Just... just keep that inside the box, ok?

You: Ok dude
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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