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dry-as-dust

or dry·as·dust

[ drahy-uhz-duhst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

1870–75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott's novels

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

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.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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