dry as dust
Example Sentences
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Yesterday, the decision emerged in a dry-as-dust news release at the dog end of the political day.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
Using historical narrative to illuminate a broad-scope, international principle is a welcome change from dry-as-dust writing about such topics.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2016
Even when they didn’t, there was always Mr Norton to nudge them along with a dry-as-dust “oops. That’s got to be awkward.”
From The Guardian • May 23, 2015
I am a confirmed bachelor, and I would not be so idiotically conceited as to imagine, sir, that the young lady could have even a passing fancy for such a dry-as-dust student as myself.
From The Rajah of Dah by Fenn, George Manville
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
