"draw blank" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "draws blank",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawing blank",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drew blank",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn blank",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draw<,,drew,drawn> blank"
      },
      "expansion": "draw blank (third-person singular simple present draws blank, present participle drawing blank, simple past drew blank, past participle drawn blank)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 24:",
          "text": "‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search (something) without finding what one was looking for."
      ],
      "id": "en-draw_blank-en-verb-MINzekuP",
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, now rare) To search (something) without finding what one was looking for."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "draw a blank"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "draw blank"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "draws blank",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawing blank",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drew blank",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn blank",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draw<,,drew,drawn> blank"
      },
      "expansion": "draw blank (third-person singular simple present draws blank, present participle drawing blank, simple past drew blank, past participle drawn blank)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "draw a blank"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 24:",
          "text": "‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search (something) without finding what one was looking for."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, now rare) To search (something) without finding what one was looking for."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "draw blank"
}