second-drawer

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second-drawer

adjective

not comparable Second-rate; mediocre. […] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them.
Opposite: top-drawer

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@misc{second_drawer_2026,
  title = {second-drawer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/second-drawer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}