"colour outside the lines" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colours outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colouring outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "colour outside the lines (third-person singular simple present colours outside the lines, present participle colouring outside the lines, simple past and past participle coloured outside the lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "color outside the lines"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Tony Ghaye, Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team, page 89",
          "text": "Now individuals and teams need to be willing to colour outside the lines and not work only from inside a box, a silo, a discipline, and so on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Thompson, Bill Bolton, Entrepreneurs, page 185",
          "text": "At Southwest we don't want clones – everyone is expected to colour outside the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Shona Husk, Out Of Rhythm",
          "text": "Perhaps she should colour outside the lines more often. Not that icecream was much of a step over the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of color outside the lines"
      ],
      "id": "en-colour_outside_the_lines-en-verb-4g6hP3k1",
      "links": [
        [
          "color outside the lines",
          "color outside the lines#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪnz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "colour outside the lines"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colours outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colouring outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloured outside the lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "colour outside the lines (third-person singular simple present colours outside the lines, present participle colouring outside the lines, simple past and past participle coloured outside the lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "color outside the lines"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪnz",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪnz/6 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Tony Ghaye, Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team, page 89",
          "text": "Now individuals and teams need to be willing to colour outside the lines and not work only from inside a box, a silo, a discipline, and so on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Thompson, Bill Bolton, Entrepreneurs, page 185",
          "text": "At Southwest we don't want clones – everyone is expected to colour outside the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Shona Husk, Out Of Rhythm",
          "text": "Perhaps she should colour outside the lines more often. Not that icecream was much of a step over the lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of color outside the lines"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "color outside the lines",
          "color outside the lines#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪnz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "colour outside the lines"
}