second-drawer
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
second-drawer (not comparable)
- 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.