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dry-as-dust
[ drahy-uhz-duhst ]
adjective
- dull and boring:
a dry-as-dust biography.
Word History and Origins
Origin of dry-as-dust1
Idioms and Phrases
Dull, boring, as in This text is dry as dust; it's putting me to sleep . [c. 1500]Example Sentences
It was no use trying to be dry-as-dust since the spring had got into her blood.
The unwritten history of this wonderful and intrepid body of men must be a long way from the dry-as-dust histories on the shelves.
They are not dry-as-dust compilations of statistics, but full of interesting matter and delightfully well written.
A dry-as-dust old fellow, Perry, going to France for some kind of research work.
It must be rendered interesting and fascinating or it will be no better than the old Dry-as-dust teaching.
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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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