jack-in-the-box
- n plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened
- Out of them and away from both jack-in-the-box and grotto, he showed Italian working people struggling toward a sunny plaza.
- Name customers have been commonplace ever since Thomas Edison strolled in to shop for a doll and lingered in fascination over a Schwarz jack-in-the-box.
- It's also what's behind yet another financial jack-in-the-box move by Henry Paulson at Treasury, who hinted on Wednesday that he was considering using part of the massive $700 .