second-drawer

adj

adj

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

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