top-heavy, Do outside (or out of) the box

Nearby hangs another bit of brilliant upgrading: the 36 airy, tragi-comedic images of “The Fragile.” All were originally sketchbook doodles — Munch-scream faces, top-heavy women or heads. Digitally printed on fabric, these images were supplemented with spider’s legs, nipples and so forth in pale red or blue dye. Bourgeois did this for seven editions, meaning that every print in every edition is unique.




America's corporate world has grown top-heavy thanks to the dominance of large firms. This stagnation in competition isn't hurting profits, but workers' wages instead

American firms are growing so big that they do not need to compete

Workers benefit when firms must compete aggressively for them

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The genre represents only about 1.2% of recorded and streamed albums sold—compared with the 26.8% for rock and 22.6% for hip-hop, rhythm and blues combined

Can jazz survive?

Playing outside the box

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頭重腳輕

top-heavy 

Pronunciation: /tɒpˈhɛvi/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Disproportionately heavy at the top so as to be in danger of toppling:double-decker carriages proved to be unsafe and top-heavy

More example sentences

2(Of an organization) having a disproportionately large number of senior administrative staff:a top-heavy bureaucracy

think outside (or out of) the box

informal Think in an original or creative way.