go home in a box

He went home in a box; I went on crutches.

But there's something you've got to remember, or you'll go home in a box and never find out how the latest serial ends: the damnyankees can fight some, too."

"Buy a bag . . . go home in a box," reads the ad line for "Popcorn," a horror film that is less mindless than most in that it is both funny and gross.