second-drawer

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Adjective[edit]

second-drawer (not comparable)

  1. Second-rate; mediocre.
    Antonym: top-drawer
    • 1978, Canadian Literature (issues 78-79, page 84)
      [] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them.