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dry-as-dust
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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 definition
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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