write for the drawer
Definitions
To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Since I first began to write⟳ I had to write⟳ for the drawer.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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