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seven-seas-digest      Sunday, December 15 2002      Volume 01 : Number 084




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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:05:55 -0600 (CST)
From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp)
Subject: seven-seas Cutter lyric

I was reading through yet-another-Brit-to-Yank-speak guide
online and it defined "bottom drawer" as "hope chest" in 
Yank speak.  I went, hmmmmmmm....

A hope chest in American English was a chest in which a girl
placed her finest sewing -- tablecloths, sheets, quilts --
in order to use when she (hopefully) got married.  It can
also mean a wooden (usually cedar) chest holding one's
finest clothing or bedding.

Is that the meaning there?  Because it changes "what's
in the bottom drawer" significantly -- here, one stuffs
what one hardly uses in the bottom drawer of a chest
of drawers (rarely used cos it's a pain to bend over
and get it) -- or perhaps the heaviest objects to
keep the drawers from tipping over.

I obviously have too much time on my hands, but that
all ends tomorrow  :-) when we add a puppy to our
family.

- --Amy



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