write for the drawer

English

Etymology

Calque of the Czech psát do šuplíku

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)

To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
- 2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19:
  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.
- 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 341-342:
  It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.
- 2016, Our Mythical Childhood, page 351:
  Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.

单词	write for the drawer
释义	write for the drawer English Etymology Calque of the Czech psát do šuplíku 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) To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat. 2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19: 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. 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 341-342: It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow. 2016, Our Mythical Childhood, page 351: Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.
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