dry-as-dust
or dry·as·dust
dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
Origin of dry-as-dust
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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 TynanThe 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 BowerThey 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 WellsA dry-as-dust old fellow, Perry, going to France for some kind of research work.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross | Alice B. EmersonIt 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
Dull, boring, as in This text is dry as dust; it's putting me to sleep. [c. 1500]
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