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idiot box

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idiot box
n. Slang
A television.
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Noun1.idiot boxidiot box - an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly"
television receiver, television set, telly, boob tube, goggle box, tv set, tv, television
kinescope, picture tube, television tube - a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
receiver, receiving system - set that receives radio or tv signals
television system, television - a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
telecasting, television, TV, video - broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs
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Senator Joe Lieberman made the observation that good parents try to instill good values at the dinner table only to have that very same evening the idiot box [television] telling the child that the parent ought to go "pound the sand.
Television: the default 'educator' of society by Catholic Insight
Seems to me like people stopped becoming involved once the idiot box showed up and started telling them how to think rather than forming opinions from experience and acting on them.
Zinn speaks the truth by Tschetter, Alex / The Progressive
It probably is worth noting that the special was made by Idiot Box Productions.
NEW YEAR'S EVE TV NOISEMAKERS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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