top drawer
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- noun
- UK
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cajón superior
- Open the top drawer of the bureau, Thomas.
- top drawer of a dresser
- top drawer of a desk
- top drawer of a bureau
Like out of all of the stuff that I have, I have a couple of them shoved in my top drawer.
- Like out of all of the stuff that I have, I have a couple of them shoved in my top drawer.
- So this one and also this one from Huda, those can go into my like top drawer where I keep more like BBCC cream type products.
- I had woke up one morning and one of my drawers, specifically my crop top drawer was covered, not covered, drenched in pee.
Examples
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By the way, if you need cash, there is some in the top drawer of my desk.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the top drawer of the desk, I found the missing keys.
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I open up the top drawer in my room.
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Start with the top drawer.
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His card is in my top drawer.
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Look in the top drawer.
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Look in your top drawer.
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My will is in the top drawer of the desk in my study.
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Look, I cleaned out the top drawer for your guests.
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It's in the bureau in the top drawer.
Synonyms
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1.0
Located at the highest position
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4.4
The highest shelf in a storage space or a thing of the highest quality
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3.9
A product that is the best and most expensive in a range
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal combination 'top' (uppermost/best) + 'drawer' (furniture compartment) yields a clear image of the uppermost compartment and thus can hint at high rank or status. However, the evaluative idiomatic sense 'of the highest quality' is a metaphorical extension rather than a direct compositional meaning, so the specific judgement of quality is not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Top drawer may come from old furniture, where people kept their best things in the top drawer. Because the upper drawer held the finest items, top drawer came to mean 'of the highest quality or status'.