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dull as dishwater
Idioms and Phrases
Boring, tedious, as in That lecture was dull as dishwater . The original simile, dull as ditchwater , dating from the 1700s, alluded to the muddy water in roadside ditches. In the first half of the 1900s, perhaps through mispronunciation, it became dishwater , that is, the dingy, grayish water in which dirty dishes had soaked.Example Sentences
Meanwhile, the news is usually pretty slow this time of year so any gaffe is going to get outsized attention because the media is desperate for campaign stories that aren't dull as dishwater.
He was dull as dishwater compared to many of the others vying for the nomination, and nobody had ever really considered him presidential timber.
Perhaps dull as dishwater, Mendelson is nonetheless as steady as they come in a council chamber where there’s hardly a dull moment.
I think something very important to remember is that we do not see good mother-in-law relationships in pop culture because good mothers-in-law are dull as dishwater from a comedic perspective.
That’s exactly what presidents did, usually in the form of a written report — typically as dull as dishwater — for most of the nation’s history.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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