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beige

1. Literally, a light gray-brown color. I'm sick of these beige walls—I think I want to repaint them a nice shade of blue. There's no way I'm hanging that absurdly bright painting in my predominantly beige house. A: "Beige is so boring. Can't we use a bolder color?" B: "No, prospective buyers like neutral colors."
2. Bland, dull, or boring. That outfit is just so beige. Can't we jazz it up a little, maybe add some sparkle? Oh, her house is anything but beige, thanks to bright paint colors and lots of funky artwork. I don't know how that guy managed to give such a beige talk on the architecture of Paris. I almost dozed off in the middle of it.
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beige

(beʒ)
mod. boring; insipid. (see also vanilla.) This day is way beige! Bag it!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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"The Beige woman is feminine, educated and worldly.
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"So finding a way to turn the white fat into "beige" and burn the energy that normally we store would have high therapeutic potential for the treatment of obesity and its related diseases," he added.
The Beige Book will be referred to the Fed's decision-making Federal Open Market Committee when it convenes April 30 and May 1.
Since the previous Beige Book report, activity in the New York and Philadelphia districts rebounded from the immediate impacts of Hurricane Sandy.
Richard Bartlett of Bartlett, Hartley and Mulkey Architects PA described the tile as "Jura Stone Light Beige (light tan) and Jura Stone Blue-gray," both of which originated in Germany.
The study found that beige fat is genetically distinct from "brown fat," which also burns calories to generate heat.
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A PAINTER who helped decorate the water tower at Cardiff Central station with its once distinctive daffodil design has criticised as "dull" plans to paint to paint the landmark beige and brown.
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