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Christmas box   /krˈɪsməs bɑks/   Listen
Christmas box

noun
1.
A present given at Christmas for services during the year.





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"Christmas box" Quotes from Famous Books



... was talking to was over in France last Christmas, and he told me all about the time they had. Seems queer, but I think it is so. He said almost every fellow in the outer trench had some sort of a Christmas box with fruit-cake and candles, and 'sweets' as he calls candies. There they were, wishing each other a merry Christmas, and shaking hands, and laughing, and the snipers' guns popping away at the Germans a few feet away from them. ...
— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske
... home. But when the Consul's wife had explained the United States way, and how the Boss was a good deal of a rooster himself, with real money enough to buy up a whole rink full of Dago princes, why Miss Padova feels like a plush Christmas box at a January sale. She turns on the sprinkler, wants to know what they suppose the Boss thinks of her, and says she wants to go back to It'ly by ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... knew his weight, When he was in the rear, And wished his box a Christmas box, To come but once ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood


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