Voorbeelden van bottom drawer

• In 1956 theatre directors and publishers were counting on the emergence of manuscripts full of revelations - plays, novels, poems written during the preceding years 'for the bottom drawer'.

• That so-called bottom drawer contained embroidered tablecloths, pillow cases and that kind of thing.

• I am afraid that the traditional "bottom drawer" of the modern bride no longer consists of a trousseau of household linen.

• Probably it just put in the bottom drawer of a desk along with the head cashier's sandwiches.

• Let us suppose that someone clips out a report of court proceedings and keeps the clipping in his bottom drawer.

• No—just like with every ceasefire that they have ever had, the plans are in the bottom drawer.

• In the early years of this century, in working-class homes at any rate, they brought something called a bottom drawer to their marriages.

• Like a rocket, it excited a moment or two's attention, but it and its lessons are now locked away in an anonymous bottom drawer.

• Other authorities have adopted a practice of preparing "informal"or"bottom drawer" plans as a basis of development control, without subjecting them to proper procedures of public consultation and formal adoption.

• What happens to the bottom drawer?

• Even the merest teen-ager in my constituency starts with her bottom drawer in anticipation, in hope deferred, as all maiden ladies do, even though the man never comes along.

• I did not for one moment think that there was a bottom drawer or, even if there was, that he would tell me what is in it.

• I wonder how many of them are now lying in bottom drawers or whether that number was a true appraisal of the needs.