"colour inside the lines" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colours inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colouring inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "colour inside the lines (third-person singular simple present colours inside the lines, present participle colouring inside the lines, simple past and past participle coloured inside the lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "color inside the lines"
        }
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Timothy Parrant, Mary's Never War",
          "text": "I guess maybe it's because Al is more of a think inside the box type of guy. For Al you had to colour inside the lines. Different was too much for him but still that was uncalled for even for him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Estelle Ryan, The Dante Connection (Book 2): A Genevieve Lenard Novel",
          "text": "“How will we be insured against being arrested?” Francine was clearly not finished with this topic. “You know that I don't always colour inside the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Simone van der Hof, Bibi van den Berg, Bart Schermer, Minding Minors Wandering the Web: Regulating Online Child Safety",
          "text": "In all of these cases, the explicit goal is to ensure that children and teenagers will colour inside the lines, that their behaviour will stay within boundaries set by parents, educators, regulators, policy makers and/or technology developers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of color inside the lines"
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "colour inside the lines"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colours inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colouring inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured inside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "colour inside the lines (third-person singular simple present colours inside the lines, present participle colouring inside the lines, simple past and past participle coloured inside the lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "color inside the lines"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Timothy Parrant, Mary's Never War",
          "text": "I guess maybe it's because Al is more of a think inside the box type of guy. For Al you had to colour inside the lines. Different was too much for him but still that was uncalled for even for him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Estelle Ryan, The Dante Connection (Book 2): A Genevieve Lenard Novel",
          "text": "“How will we be insured against being arrested?” Francine was clearly not finished with this topic. “You know that I don't always colour inside the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Simone van der Hof, Bibi van den Berg, Bart Schermer, Minding Minors Wandering the Web: Regulating Online Child Safety",
          "text": "In all of these cases, the explicit goal is to ensure that children and teenagers will colour inside the lines, that their behaviour will stay within boundaries set by parents, educators, regulators, policy makers and/or technology developers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of color inside the lines"
      ],
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  "word": "colour inside the lines"
}