tidy one's sock drawer (English, verb)
expansion: tidy one's sock drawer (third-person singular simple present tidies one's sock drawer, present participle tidying one's sock drawer, simple past and past participle tidied one's sock drawer)
Senses:
glosses: To do, or supposedly do, a mundane and unimportant activity as an excuse to avoid something onerous or unappealing.
tags: figuratively
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tidy, one's, sock, drawer.
Forms:
form: tidies one's sock drawer
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tidying one's sock drawer
tags: participle
present
form: tidied one's sock drawer
tags: participle
past
form: tidied one's sock drawer
tags: past