dry-as-dust

or dry·as·dust

[ drahy-uhz-duhst ]

/ ˈdraɪ əzˈdʌst /

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adjective

dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.

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Origin of dry-as-dust

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

How to use dry-as-dust in a sentence

It was no use trying to be dry-as-dust since the spring had got into her blood.
Mary Gray|Katharine Tynan
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.
The Happy Family|Bertha Muzzy Bower
They are not dry-as-dust compilations of statistics, but full of interesting matter and delightfully well written.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
A dry-as-dust old fellow, Perry, going to France for some kind of research work.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross|Alice B. Emerson

It must be rendered interesting and fascinating or it will be no better than the old Dry-as-dust teaching.
Practical Cinematography and Its Applications|Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Other Idioms and Phrases with dry-as-dust

dry as dust

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