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dry-as-dust

  [drahy-uhz-duhst]
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–adjective
dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
Also, dry⋅as⋅dust.

Origin:
1870–75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott's novels
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dry-as-dust

  1. mod.
    dull; lifeless. : I can't take another one of his dry-as-dust lectures.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

dry as dust

Dull, boring, as in This text is dry as dust; it's putting me to sleep. [c. 1500]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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