Until the 1930s this phrase was strictly used for guns and shootings but then it started being used in its modern way, performing an action with haste. ( source )

In Tudor England Elizabeth I, in an attempt to turn around a national debt, signed the license in 1567 to have a national lottery. Drawing a blank was a phrase used when someone drew a blank lottery ticket. It's a pretty fascinating history, read about it here . Throughout the centuries the phrase evolved into how we use it today, to fail to recall a memory or fail in some speculative effort.

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