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draw
verb
while injecting a drug, to pull blood into the syringe to verify that the needle has hit a blood vein US- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 70, 1971
▶ draw dead
in poker, to draw cards into a hand that cannot win US- — Anthony Holden, Big Deal, p. 300, 1990
▶ draw the crabs- to attract the enemy’s attention; to draw fire AUSTRALIA, 1918
- “Don’t disturb those bastards,” he said, indicating a flock of grotesque hornbills that crawled, feeding and quarrelling, in the high branches. “They’ll damned soon draw the crabs, if anything will!” — T. A. G. Hungerford, The Ridge and the River, p. 91, 1952
- to attract unwanted attention AUSTRALIA
- Anyway he said if he was seen out here meeting Jimmy it might draw the crabs. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 193, 1988
▶ draw the crow
to get the worst job or the worst share of something AUSTRALIA, 1942- [Punning on proper names] This is fair dinkum no “Larkin” for its “Smee” who wrote it for a “Sprat” but I drew the “Crowe” as usual. Like most railwaymen we puff and blow because it’s been a life of hard lines. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 211, 1969
▶ draw water
(of the sun) to exhibit long vertical lines in the sky CANADA, 1942
Said in Nova Scotia to be a sign of approaching rain, it occurs also in New England, where it is said to be a sign of clear weather.- When the sun is out and visible streaks in the sky point toward it, the sun’s a-drawin’ water. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 39, 1999
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