penalty box
Noun
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Noun
penalty box (plural penalty boxes)
- (ice hockey) An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction.
- Both players got to cool their heels for five minutes in their respective penalty boxes after the fight.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (idiomatic, figuratively) A temporary punishment, or, metaphorically, a similar setback (e.g., loss of control, embarrassment, etc.).
- 2003, Tim Breithaupt, 10 Steps to Sales Success: The Proven System That Can Shorten the Selling Cycle, Double Your Close Ratio, ISBN 081447165X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=9yNSqTdMjZ0C&pg=PA174&dq=%22penalty+box%22+-hockey+-football+-soccer&sig=zWYjAqASux2QhQp119WmnxRE5iI#PPA170,M1 pg. 170]:
- A visit to the penalty box occurs when the salesman has relinquished control of the sales call by immediately answering the customer's question.
- 2003, John Portmann, Sex and heaven: Catholics in bed and at prayer, ISBN 0312294883, pg. 155 ↗:
- What can land you in this metaphorical holding cell, the penalty box of Catholicism?
- 2008, John Zarrella and Patrick Oppmann, "Florida, Michigan seek exit from Democratic penalty box," CNN.com, :
- Florida, Michigan seek exit from Democratic penalty box
- 2003, Tim Breithaupt, 10 Steps to Sales Success: The Proven System That Can Shorten the Selling Cycle, Double Your Close Ratio, ISBN 081447165X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=9yNSqTdMjZ0C&pg=PA174&dq=%22penalty+box%22+-hockey+-football+-soccer&sig=zWYjAqASux2QhQp119WmnxRE5iI#PPA170,M1 pg. 170]:
- (ice hockey) sin bin
- French: banc des pénalités
- Russian: скаме́йка штрафников
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