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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
Words nearby dry-as-dust
dry, dry abscess, dryad, dry adiabatic lapse rate, dryas, dry-as-dust, dry battery, dry beer, dry behind the ears, dry-bone ore, drybrush
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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]
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