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I hated this phrase too, until I learned where it comes from. And I can therefore inform you all that the box referred to is, in fact, a square.
The phrase originates in a rather clever puzzle that was thought up in 1914, which I shall replicate here. Try and join all nine dots in the picture below using only four straight lines and without taking your pen from the paper (or computer screen).
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What? No?
Well, try thinking outside the box.
Solution here.
Pandora thinking outside the box
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