color outside the linesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

color outside the lines (三人称単数 現在形 colors outside the lines, 現在分詞 coloring outside the lines, 過去形および過去分詞形 colored outside the lines)

1. (intransitive) To behave in creative or unconventional ways, to break the rules.
   • 2009, James L. Nolan Jr, Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement:

     As one American problem-solving court judge put it: “We are the judges who get to color outside the lines.”

   • 2007, Bret Anthony Johnston, Corpus Christi: Stories:

     It comes from the fact that skaters are more likely, as you say, to color outside the lines, and that inclination frightens and confuses most people and institutions.

   • 2008, Matthew Paul Turner, Churched: One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess:

     For most of my life, I've watched my mother resist the urge to color outside the lines. Not because she didn't want to do it, but because some part of her wasn't free enough.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see color,‎ outside,‎ lines.