dry-as-dust
[
drahy
-
uh
z-
duhst
]
/ˈdraɪ əzˈdʌst/
adjective
1.
dull and boring:
a dry-as-dust biography.
Also,
dryasdust
.
Origin
1870-75;
after Dr.
Dryasdust,
a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott's novels
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
]