bored stiff
Example Sentences
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The comedy double act told how they were "bored stiff" by Monty Python in an old university TV station interview, in a two-minute clip unearthed in 2021.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022
There was nothing to do and I was bored stiff.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2015
After years of teaching undergraduate science courses, Jeff realized he was bored stiff with rote curriculum — and if he was bored, what were the students?
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2014
He then headed into a classroom where a dozen students hunched and slouched at their desks, looking bored stiff already.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2013
Sunday afternoon she was at Hanneli’s, and I was bored stiff.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
