What does draw blank mean?

draw blank

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

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Archaic; Transitive verb

"‘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!’"

draws blank (present, singular) drawing blank (participle, present) drew blank (past) drawn blank (participle, past)

draw a blank

draw a blank

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