dry-as-dust

or dry·as·dust

[ drahy-uhz-duhst ]

/ ˈdraɪ əzˈdʌst /

adjective

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

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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Example sentences from the Web for dry-as-dust

He likes them not in any dry-as-dust fashion, but for the light they throw upon the living world of his day.
Alone|Norman Douglas
Dry-as-dust letters and specifications, builders' quantities, and so on, to type out.
The Boy with Wings|Berta Ruck
I saw them this morning, a couple of dry-as-dust old fossils—city men, I believe, who only think of house property and dividends.
The Seven Secrets|William Le Queux
And must practise knowledge on a flesh-and-blood love, not cherish it as a dry-as-dust theory.
Twos and Threes|G. B. Stern

Technical and abstruse as his intellectual interests were, he appears to have been anything but a dry-as-dust.
Studies in Medival Life and Literature|Edward Tompkins McLaughlin

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]

单词	dry-as-dust
释义	dry-as-dust or dry·as·dust [ drahy-uhz-duhst ] / ˈdraɪ əzˈdʌst / adjective dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography. 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 Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dry-as-dust He likes them not in any dry-as-dust fashion, but for the light they throw upon the living world of his day. Alone\|Norman Douglas Dry-as-dust letters and specifications, builders' quantities, and so on, to type out. The Boy with Wings\|Berta Ruck I saw them this morning, a couple of dry-as-dust old fossils—city men, I believe, who only think of house property and dividends. The Seven Secrets\|William Le Queux And must practise knowledge on a flesh-and-blood love, not cherish it as a dry-as-dust theory. Twos and Threes\|G. B. Stern Technical and abstruse as his intellectual interests were, he appears to have been anything but a dry-as-dust. Studies in Medival Life and Literature\|Edward Tompkins McLaughlin 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] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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