Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 9 compound words that contain drawer. The most common are listed below. Open drawer in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- junk drawerA drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
- top-drawerAlternative form of top drawer.
- not the sharpest knife in the drawerLacking in intelligence; dimwitted.
- write for the drawerTo write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
- trash drawerA tall drawer, usually found in a kitchen, in which a garbage can or garbage bag can be placed, for the collection and disposal of trash.
- Dirichlet's drawer principleSynonym of pigeonhole principle: The theorem which states that any partition of a finite set of n elements into m (< n) subsets (allowing empty subsets) must include a subset with two or more elements; any of certain reformulations …
- writing for the drawerpresent participle and gerund of write for the drawer
- written for the drawerpast participle of write for the drawer: To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
- wrote for the drawersimple past of write for the drawer
- writes for the drawerthird-person singular simple present indicative of write for the drawer: To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
- second-drawerSecond-rate; mediocre.
- warming drawerA compartment in an oven for reheating previously cooked food or keeping, cooked food warm.
- tidy one's sock drawerTo do, or supposedly do, a mundane and unimportant activity as an excuse to avoid something onerous or unappealing.
- bottom drawerUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bottom, drawer.
- desk drawerA drawer (open-topped sliding box) built into a desk.
- door drawerSynonym of pull-up boy: A boy employed in a metalworks to raise the furnace door.
- kitchen drawerSynonym of junk drawer: A drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
- timber drawerA person employed to remove timber props.
- file-drawer problemThe bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.
- porridge drawerA drawer in which freshly cooked porridge was left to cool, to be served in hardened slices later on.
- knicker drawerA drawer, in a chest of drawers or dressing table, in which someone, especially a woman, keeps their underclothes
- knick-knack drawerSynonym of junk drawer: A drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
- not the sharpest knives in the drawerplural of not the sharpest knife in the drawer: Lacking in intelligence; dimwitted.
- tidied one's sock drawersimple past and past participle of tidy one's sock drawer
- tidies one's sock drawerthird-person singular simple present indicative of tidy one's sock drawer: To do, or supposedly do, a mundane and unimportant activity as an excuse to avoid something onerous or unappealing.
Compound words 9
- drawerknobA knob for opening a drawer.
- drawerfulThe contents of a full drawer.
- drawerlessWithout drawers.
- codrawerA joint drawer of funds.
- drawerlikeResembling a drawer.
- wiredrawerA person employed to draw out metal into wires for making jewellery etc.
- junkdrawerAlternative spelling of junk drawer: A drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
- drawerknobsplural of drawerknob: A knob for opening a drawer.
- toothdrawerAlternative form of tooth-drawer: Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.