"Dry as dust" nghĩa là gì?

Hoa khô không bụi. Photo courtesy Will Folsom.

'(as) Dry as dust' = khô như bụi -> nghĩa là rất khô (extremely dry); tẻ nhạt, buồn chán (very dull; very boring).

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This dry-as-dust documentary paints a portrait of a man on a mission.

The young are often bored by what they are learning, the staff are bored by teaching the dry-as-dust curriculum, and the schools as a result are drab, unexciting places.

People who for years couldn’t find a manifesto they could embrace with all their hearts, who found the Blair era sterile and dry as dust, are thrilled to finally see their ideas in print.

There is more talking than sex, and that talk’s comic content is often dry as dust, mostly without the easy laughs and obvious comic beats of, say, Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach or Agnès Jaoui.

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