second-drawer

English

Adjective

second-drawer (not comparable)

1. Second-rate; mediocre.

   Antonym: top-drawer

   • 1978, Canadian Literature, numbers 78-79, page 84:

     […] 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.