Word: drawerfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trigger of midlife depression, can free women from the burden of expectations, as they ask, Who am I doing all this for anyway? Shellenbarger cites research that found men's "dream fulfillment" goes downhill from their mid-30s on; women, who tend to put their dreams in the sock drawer during their main child-rearing years, actually become dreamier as they get older; 36% of those between 50 and 64 reported that they had fulfilled a dream, compared with 24% of younger women and 28% of their male peers...
...Hong Kong cinema is like a hot girl’s underwear drawer. I know that they both contain exotic and thrilling treasures, but nervous trepidation prevents me from exploring them. For every time I’ve given up on a panty raid out of fear that I’d only find granny-pants or that I’d get caught in flagrante dilecto, there’s a Hong Kong action film that I decided not to see because I was afraid that it would be full of plot conventions and pop-culture references that would...
...came to regret it for another reason. Housewife Yohanna Duha and her 20-year-old daughter ran to the hills after the earthquake. When they returned home in the morning, their house was damaged but standing, and looters had taken everything they could?"every penny I had in my drawer," says Duha, "and the cell phones we left when we ran for safety...
Inside the Senate chamber the students got an inside glimpse of the sweet life senators can enjoy, even on the job—one of the students opened a random drawer of a senator’s desk, to find it filled with Christmas-colored candy...
...Glazer: love of my life. Future father of my children. President of the UC. You would think that after reading this creepy tribute, Matt would either place a restraining order on me or call and beg for me to give back the balled up underwear I took from his drawer. But who am I kidding? He’s such a nice guy, he’ll probably do to me what he does to everybody else: be my friend. And I’ll keep the underwear...