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drawer
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someone's bottom drawer
the things a young woman collects to use in her home after she is married. I've given her some silver cutlery for her bottom drawer.
See also: bottom

from/out of the top drawer

from a very high social class. Caroline liked to pretend that she came from the very top drawer of society.
See also: from, top

top-drawer

from/out of the top drawer - from a very high social class. His designs are stocked by all the top-drawer retailers in London and New York.

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Women should have a drawerful of options," says Lou Crawford, founder of The Keeper, which makes natural gum rubber cups inserted to catch menstrual flow.
He spent decades scraping for funding for his still-distinctive works, leaving behind a drawerful of intriguing but unrealized projects.
By the time many people consult a doctor for their acne, they usually have tried a drawerful of over-the-counter (OTC) medications.
 
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