noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk drawer
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I think I left my car keys in the desk drawer.
bottom drawer
chest of drawers
the bottom drawer/shelf
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My passport’s in the bottom drawer of my desk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottom
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The other women hadn't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes.
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He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer .
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Black's hand found the bottom drawer , and the bottle.
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The bottom drawer was pulled out and empty.
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The bottom drawer of her desk proved to be locked, with no sign of a key.
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I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer .
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The baby slept in the bottom drawer of the dresser: the kitten had a feather cushion.
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Johnnie found the tacks in the bottom drawer and, whirling on her heels, marched out of the kitchen.
small
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All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers .
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The box, itself, is a treasure because it has a hinged lid and a very small drawer .
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This small chest of drawers is an ideal container.
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Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door.
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It is like having a large array of small drawers containing electronic components.
top
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The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
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She opened the top drawer of her desk.
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Climbing off his mattress Gimmelmann went to the top drawer of his dresser and took out a file.
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He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
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The key was in the top drawer , neatly labelled.
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McWilliams' two wins in the Superbike races were both top drawer performances.
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Spare house and garage keys in the top right hand drawer of Charles's desk.
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Theodora had found the spare vestry key, neatly labelled, in the top right-hand drawer of Charles Julian's desk.
■ NOUN
cutlery
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The pull-out cutlery drawer can be lifted out for easy unloading.
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He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee.
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I tell you what, while you're on your feet, get me the cutlery drawer out and the metal polish.
desk
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Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
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He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.
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He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
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Keep the paper in a desk drawer or folder.
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Taking his magnifying glass from a desk drawer , he fell upon the plans and scrutinized each one intently without speaking.
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Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers .
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There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
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Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
dresser
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She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
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When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
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In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots.
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She was for ever running to ransack her crowded dresser drawers , rummaging in her sewing box as she made high-pitched excited noises.
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Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer .
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They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
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He opens a dresser drawer and picks out a cheap hairbrush, then a pharmacy bottle containing a single capsule of Prozac.
kitchen
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Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.
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He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio.
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Recently, I found a roll of undeveloped film in a kitchen drawer .
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It is somewhere in the kitchen drawer with the 60-watt bulbs.
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I then removed every knife and sharp instrument from the kitchen drawer .
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He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer .
sock
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He made piles of quarters in his sock drawer when he emptied his pockets at night.
■ VERB
close
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He did, smirking as he closed the drawer again.
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When he turned round, Lee was closing the drawer in his desk.
find
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Dominic sorted through the steely shapes in the table drawer until he found the bread-knife.
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I pat down coat pockets, dig through backpacks and open drawers until I find it.
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Amongst the assorted contents of the other drawers she found another small box.
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But then in another drawer you find something maybe even more useful.
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Finally, hidden under a guide to hotel services in the desk drawer , we found a loose-leaf binder with instructions.
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It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest.
keep
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MacQuillan's copy was kept in a locked drawer of his desk.
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What some one kept in a bedside drawer .
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At first people kept their drawers on, then they'd lower them.
lock
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The receptionist took my money and locked it in a drawer of the desk, then stood up.
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Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
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Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer .
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There was a locked drawer in the desk in the den, so it was the one I opened first.
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Then, just to show off, I took out my picks and locked the drawer after myself.
open
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She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
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He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers .
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He began opening the drawers of his desk in an unhurried way, looking for something.
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He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
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She opened a sofa table drawer .
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Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer .
pull
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She pulled open a drawer to drop the note in.
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He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
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He pulled out the top drawer of the desk, where lined in rows were a dozen paper tubes.
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The little boy had lost interest and started pulling open the drawers of the dressing-table.
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He pulled out drawer after drawer, his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.
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I pulled the whole drawer out and checked along the back.
put
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The dress was put in a drawer , unfinished but not forgotten about.
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Just put them in his drawer ?
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He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer .
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He took down the picture of Uncle John and put it in the drawer of his desk.
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I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer .
reach
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He had already reached into a drawer and pulled out two index cards.
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When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
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I reached in my top drawer for the telephone book and hauled it out.
rummage
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Some one had rummaged through the drawer .
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Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers , rearranging them however she liked.
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I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
shut
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He opened and shut the drawers and the flap and found what he expected.
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He made as if to shut the drawer , saw the gun and hesitated.
take
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He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
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She went to her desk and opened a drawer from which she took a couple of bank notes.
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They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
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Philip opened his desk drawer to take the medals out and look at them again.
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When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
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He opened the desk drawer and took out the remote-control gadget and clicked the set to life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shut sth in the door/drawer etc
shut the door/drawer etc on sth
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Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.
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Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
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Everyone has been going for national contracts and that has shut the door on the small company.
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It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
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Madeleine grimaced after she'd shut the door on him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A white petticoat, black stockings and white drawers lay over outer clothes.
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From the hardware drawer in the kitchen I equipped myself with a hammer, a chisel, and a mean-looking screwdriver.
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He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer .
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He glanced up as she came in and swept everything back into the drawer .
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He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers.
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He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer .
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I continued my search, working with delicacy, leaving the contents of each drawer undisturbed.
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In the centre of the desk, above the leg space, was a thin drawer he had overlooked.