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*dry as dust and *dry as a bone

1. Cliché very dry. (*Also: as ~.) 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 ~.) This book is as dry as dust. I am going to stop reading it. Her lecture was dry as dust—just like her subject.

See also: dry, dust

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dry as dust (redirected from Dry As a Bone)

dry as dust
(redirected from Dry As a Bone)