0 clothes, sheets, etc. that a young woman traditionally collects for use after she is married:
Kate's grandmother gave her a quilt for her 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.
