top drawer
noun
the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
Origin of top drawer
First recorded in 1900–05
OTHER WORDS FROM top drawer
top-drawer, adjectiveWords nearby top drawer
top brass,
top cat,
top dead-centre,
top dog,
top dollar,
top drawer,
top end,
top flight,
top gear,
top grafting,
top gun
Example sentences from the Web for top-drawer
Like all top-drawer authors, García Márquez possesses magnificent authority.
Dreier was a Yale and Harvard law graduate and a staple of top-drawer charity galas.
I know it's top-drawer stuff, but are these Uniques actually people?
The Butterfly Kiss |Arthur Dekker SavageAnd the top-drawer of a sewing- table fairly rattling with spools!
Rainy Week |Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for top-drawer
top drawer
noun
people of the highest standing, esp socially (esp in the phrase out of the top drawer)
Idioms and Phrases with top-drawer
top drawer
Of the highest quality, importance, or rank, as in The musicians in this pick-up orchestra were top drawer. It probably alludes to the uppermost drawer in a bureau or chest, where the most valuable objects (such as jewelry) are usually kept. [c. 1900]