dry as a bone

dry as a bone
*dry as dust & *dry as a bone
1. Cliché very dry. (*Also: as \dry as a bone.) •

The bread is as dry as dust.

When the leaves are dry as a bone, they break into powder easily.

2. Cliché very dull; very boring. (*Also: as \dry as a bone.) •

This book is as dry as dust. I am going to stop reading it.

Her lecture was dry as dust—just like her subject.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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