English Explanatory Dictionary

write for the drawer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.

Word forms

write for the drawer writes for the drawer writing for the drawer wrote for the drawer written for the drawer

Etymology

Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku.

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