draw a blank

draw a blank informalto be unsuccessful in finding information or the answer to a problem〔在查找信息或问题的答案时〕不成功，无结果:•All his investigations have drawn a blank so far.他所有的调查迄今为止都没有结果。 draw a blank elicit no successful response; fail 得不到想得到的回应（或信息）; 失败： the search drew a blank. 搜寻失败了。 draw a blank 见BLANK. draw a ˈblankto get no response or result无回音；无结果；无收获So far, the police investigation has drawn a blank.到目前为止警方的调查毫无结果。

• bulbaceous
• centroplast
• deemstership
• outriding
• gobble up
• up to sth
• clap someone by the heels
• skillless
• hyacinthin
• ramblingly
• reformulation
• Amasa
• ossia
• apparent
• pedologies
• blocking test
• on the bridle
• enscroll
• nebrises
• optimistic
• cop off (with sb)
• wash down
• vesselful
• interveners
• glass-culture
• auxiliary yacht
• general practitioner
• Basie William
• sofa banker
• decasyllable
• memorializations
• lentisk
• trunk curl
• balsamics
• a conspiracy of silence
• technologize
• cur.
• alluvial fan
• big sb/sth↔up
• Kenyon, Dame Kathleen
• as heavy as lead
• subastringent
• decide against
• harmonistic
• gliding machine
• snuff films
• crusted theory
• erythrocins
• housephone
• one in(或of) a thousand
• detectaphone
• pulsating
• three-colour
• poison ivy
• primmest
• deprivational
• set（或put）one's hand to
• labelled stamps
• allergics
• a good word
• dazzle
• long-chain
• unitholders
• turn one's hand to something
• toxophore
• Ustoll
• under the influence of liquor
• luciferins
• join forces with
• flautato
• peckishness
• feudalizations
• take-home pay
• moires
• substantialist
• despiteful
• perispore
• talk into
• tachygraphers
• like watching paint dry
• stand in awe of someone
• anastatic
• dowagerism
• jaspilites
• pronounceable
• tractor propeller
• commute sth for / into sth
• Spyri, Johanna
• aldermancies
• Applewriter
• Devonian period
• cutties
• coupledoms
• come by sth
• camelbacked
• Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
• Edos
• electronic watch
• double-crosser
• galway bays