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top-drawer adjective well-bred, high-class, the best UK, 1920- Chances are that if a call-girl is easy to meet she is not, as her boosters boast, “top-drawer stuff.” — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 2, 1957
- Daisy was a top-drawer Red in Los Angeles, a big and homely woman with the largest feet I ever saw on a woman. — Going Away, p. 35, 1962
- The Opal I knew was a stone young lady, with top drawer parents. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 54, 1979
- Claudia always stayed at a cozy hotel near the Tennis Club in the days when tennis was tops, when developers there wouldn’t dream of doing a hotel, condo or country club without top-drawer tennis facilities. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 61, 1992
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