(as) dull as dishwater イディオム
dull as dishwater
Idiom(s): (as) dull as dishwater AND (as) dull as ditchwaterTheme: BOREDOM
very uninteresting.
• I'm not surprised that he can't find a partner. He's as dull as dishwater.
• Mr. Black's speech was as dull as ditchwater.
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(as) addled as dishwater
Very arid or unexciting. This byword is generally acclimated to call a person. My date with Dave was not great—he is as addled as dishwater. I fell comatose during that cine because it was as addled as dishwater.Learn more: dishwater, dull*dull as dishwater
and *dull as canal water actual uninteresting. (*Also: as ~.) I'm not afraid that he can't acquisition a partner. He's as addled as dishwater. Mr. Black's accent was as addled as dishwater.Learn more: dishwater, dulldull as dishwater
Boring, tedious, as in That address was addled as dishwater. The aboriginal simile, dull as ditchwater, dating from the 1700s, alluded to the addled baptize in roadside ditches. In the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s, conceivably through mispronunciation, it became dishwater, that is, the dingy, grayish baptize in which bedraggled dishes had soaked. Learn more: dishwater, dulldull as borsch (or ditchwater)
acutely dull.Learn more: dishwater, dull(as) addled as dishwater
mod. actual dull. Activity can be as addled as dishwater. Learn more: dishwater, dulldull as dishwater
verbSee as addled as dishwaterLearn more: dishwater, dulldull as dishwater
Flat, boring. This announcement began activity in the eighteenth aeon as dull as ditchwater, alluding to the addled blush of the baptize in roadside gullies. “He’d be bluff than a serpent’s tooth, if he wasn’t as addled as ditchwater,” says Dickens’s Fanny Cleaver (Oliver Twist). This adaptation survived on both abandon of the Atlantic able-bodied into the twentieth century. Either through absent-minded accentuation or through agnate affinity it occasionally became dishwater—water in which dishes had been done and which appropriately was bedimmed and grayish.Learn more: dishwater, dull
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