| 词汇 | draw a blank |
| 词源 | draw a blank. To search hard but fail to find out about something. The reference is to the losing ticket in a lottery in which people buy numbered tickets to win prizes; a blank tick- et wins nothing. The expression dates back to the late 19th century. |
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