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be like watching grass grow

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be like watching grass grow (humorous, humorous)

if you say that watching an activity is like watching grass grow, you mean that it is very boring. To watch somebody fly-fishing is like watching grass grow.

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``It'll be like watching grass grow or paint dry,'' Boeing spokesman Warren Lamb said, ``like when I go down the 405 Freeway in the morning. MOVING RIGHT ALONG ... BOEING TESTS NEW ASSEMBLY LINE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

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