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top drawer

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top drawer
n
people of the highest standing, esp socially (esp in the phrase out of the top drawer)
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All your letters I have left behind me in the top drawer of Thedora's chest of drawers.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
A bullet-hole, plugged, in the face of the top drawer, told of the fight with the Indians at Little Meadow.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
The top drawer contained a complete collection of carpenter's tools in miniature, relics probably of the far-distant time when the Major was a boy, and when parents or friends had made him a present of a set of toy tools.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
 
 
 
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