2007-06-18 12:17:59 · 37 answers · asked by Smurf 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Hmmmm....I don't know, I've drawn a blank.
2007-06-18 18:03:38 · answer #1 · answered by Alicat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In fact it is rather a macabre cliche. When soldiers were assigned to form a firing squad to execute one of their comrades, they were told that one of the rifles with which they were issued was loaded with a blank round. This way, they could all walk away afterwards rationalising that they might have been the one who did not fire the fatal shot. So, to 'draw the blank' was to take the rifle from stores which held the dud round; everyone else was in on the conspiracy, you were not. It has now come to mean that you have no idea of what is going on, you haven't got a clue. You have "drawn a blank".
Ironically the whole thing is based on an urban myth. The recoil from a rifle loaded with a real bullet would be completely different to that of one loaded with a blank and even an inexperienced soldier would know the difference.
2007-06-18 12:29:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A blank cartridge is often called a blank. Draw that.
2007-06-18 12:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Know It All 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is draw as in playing cards, not draw as in art. Some decks have blanks for wild cards.
2007-06-18 12:20:52 · answer #4 · answered by Net Rider 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the game of Dominoes. If you get a blank peice, that is called "drawing a blank." :)
2007-06-18 12:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by That Anna Girl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
BLANK <---- there I drawed it well I typed it but still I drawed it
2007-06-18 12:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by coolqt101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try drawing with lemon juice then warming it over a candle be very very careful not to burn the paper cause it can be nasty it hurts and you could burn the house down but it works we've had great fun writing secret messages that look blank with our kids
2007-06-18 12:31:11 · answer #7 · answered by old-bag 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drawing a blank is referring to when you are trying to think about something, usually trying to solve a problem, but you are making no progress, or when you try to remember something, but you find you have forgotten completely.
2007-06-18 12:22:21 · answer #8 · answered by Blaxxberry 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Air Painting
2007-06-18 12:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
quite simple.
In early lottery/raffle draws every ticket with a number on it won ...... anyone who "drew a blank" ticket lost
PS: The firing squad answers are 400 or so years too late.
The 1st known lottery/raffle/draw reference dates to 1506 apparantly
2007-06-18 12:21:26 · answer #10 · answered by Weatherman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can draw a bullet that has no explosives in it. You can shoot that blank too.
2007-06-18 12:20:24 · answer #11 · answered by carguy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋