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drawing the short straw

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables
draw-ing the short- s-traw
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of draw the short straw

Questions

What does drawing the short straw mean?
present participle and gerund of draw the short straw

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