dry-as-dust

dry-as-dust
/druy"euhz dust"/, adj.
dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
Also, dryasdust.
[1870-75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott's novels]

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