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drawer
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + drawer
the top/bottom/middle drawer
• He opened the bottom drawer and got out a T-shirt.
a desk/table/dresser etc drawer
• The passports are in my desk drawer.
a kitchen drawer
(= in a piece of kitchen furniture )
• There's some string in that kitchen drawer.
a sock/underwear/cutlery etc drawer
(= containing socks, underwear etc )
• He hid the gun in his sock drawer.
the right-hand/left-hand drawer
• Have you looked in the left-hand drawer?
verbs
open a drawer
• Jonathan opened the drawer and took out a fork.
pull open/pull out a drawer
(= open it )
• He pulled open drawers until he found the papers.
close/shut a drawer
• She shut the drawer and locked it with a small key.
go through/look through/search through drawers
(= try to find something by looking in drawers )
• I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
rummage/rifle through drawers
(= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way )
• Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers.
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noun ADJ. deep, shallow a desk with two deep drawers either side | open | locked | bottom, middle, top | kitchen | desk, dresser, dressing table | cash, cutlery, filing | secret VERB + DRAWER open, pull open/out, slide open She pulled open the second drawer down to find the money had gone. | close, push in/shut, shut He pushed the drawer shut with a bang. | reach into She reached into the drawer and found the key to the safe. | go through, look through, ransack, rummage in/through What do you think you are doing, rummaging through my drawers? PREP. from/out of a/the ~ She took the gun from the drawer. | in a/the ~ He put the letters in the drawer.
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