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(as) dry as dust1Extremely dry: his throat was dry as dust...- Her arms and legs felt like hundred-pound weights; the inside of Tory's mouth felt like the sand of the Sahara desert, dry as dust.
- Cocoa Puffs, dry as dust and hard as she poured them into the bowl, the glass still warm from the hot water.
- My dad would try every now and then but his potatoes were dry as dust.
1.1Extremely dull; lacking emotion, expression, or interest: what the students learned was as dry as dust...- I searched in vain for a subject that wasn't deadly boring, dry as dust, and leached of every detail of the kind that makes things interesting in real life.
- US audiences will find this latter subject dry as dust and uninteresting.
- Van Gogh may have attended art school in Antwerp, but he found it dry as dust and here we see his real teachers: Delacroix Courbet, Millet and Rembrandt.
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