write for the drawer

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat. idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

writes for the drawer present,singular,third-person writing for the drawer participle,present wrote for the drawer past written for the drawer participle,past

词源

Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku.
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