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writing for the drawer

writing for the drawer is the present participle and gerund of write for the drawer.

Meaning of write for the drawer

Verb

write for the drawer (third-person singular simple present writes for the drawer, present participle writing for the drawer, simple past wrote for the drawer, past participle written for the drawer)

  1. (idiomatic) To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
    • It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19

Questions about writing for the drawer

What is writing for the drawer the present participle and gerund of?
Writing for the drawer is the present participle and gerund of write for the drawer.

Words near writing for the drawer in the dictionary

  1. writing checks one can't cash
  2. writing cheques one can't cash
  3. writing desk
  4. writing desks
  5. writing down
  6. writing for the drawer
  7. writing in
  8. writing itself
  9. writing lark
  10. writing larks
  11. writing master

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