draw blank
verbDefinitions
To search (something) without finding what one was looking for.
- ‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for draw blank. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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